Patent ID: 7242498

Claim:
A job executing system in which, with respect to a same processing object, designated jobs are executed in a sequence, comprising: job management means for managing an input-related candidate job which executes chiefly input processing, and an output-related candidate job which executes chiefly output processing; job synthesizing means for generating, according to a user's operation, a synthetic job constituted by an input-related candidate job which has been already executed by a first device, and an output-related candidate job which will be executed hereafter; and job schedule succeeding means for succeeding, only after the first device has executed the input-related candidate job, a schedule of the synthetic job generated from the first device to a second device when the second device which has yet to execute the output-related candidate job and the first device which has executed the input-related candidate job are different in the synthetic job, wherein the job schedule succeeding means includes a job table which stores the synthetic job, and wherein the synthetic job is maintained in the job table until the synthetic job is completed, and only then is the synthetic job deleted from the job table.