Patent ID: 7958217

Claim:
A job management system, comprising: a terminal for executing a job, and for collecting operation information corresponding to respective operations executed by an operator; and a management server for managing the operation information collected by the terminal, the management server being connected to the terminal via a network: wherein the terminal transmits, to the management server, operation log data including the operation information capable of identifying the corresponding operations executed by the operator; wherein the management server stores, in advance, information indicating categories for the operation information and combinations thereof which are used for interpreting the operation information transmitted from the terminal as the corresponding operation executed by the operator with respect to the terminal; wherein the management server selects categories for operation information and a combination thereof which minimize a data size of the operation log data to be transmitted by the terminal; wherein the management server comprises an input unit that receives information indicating a group of operations input by an administrator, which are interpreted as identical operation; and wherein the management server further comprises an optimizing unit that selects, from among all the categories for the operation information and combinations thereof that are capable of identifying the group, the categories for the operation information and the combination thereof that minimize the data size of the operation log data to be transmitted by the terminal.