Patent ID: 8537403

Claim:
A method for controlling and monitoring transfers of print jobs from clients connected in a network to printers connected in the network, the method comprising: receiving, at a server, from a client connected in the network, a request to be allowed to send a print job to a selected printer connected in the network; checking, by the server, whether the printer is accessible and has capacity for receiving the print job at present; sending, when the selected printer is accessible and has capacity to receive the print job at present, a go-ahead to the client that the client can send the print job directly to the selected printer, and repetitively receiving at the server, from the client, updated status information regarding the completion of the print job by the printer, the repetitively receiving of the updated status information occurring after the sending of the go-ahead, absence of the repetitively receiving indicating an operation error of the client or a communication error between the client and the server.