Patent ID: 8244065

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a characteristic management unit configured to manage a characteristic of each of a plurality of types of storage areas that store print jobs; a designation input unit configured to designate a storage area of a print job to be retrieved from among the plurality of types of storage areas; a retrieval condition input unit configured to input a retrieval condition; a processing unit configured to process the retrieval condition input by the retrieval condition input unit based on a type of the storage area designated by the designation input unit and a characteristic of a storage area managed by the characteristic management unit that corresponds to the type of the designated storage area; a retrieval unit configured to extract, from print jobs stored in the storage area designated by the designation input unit, a print job based on the retrieval condition processed by the processing unit; and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the print job extracted by the retrieval unit as a retrieval result.