Patent ID: 7505159

Claim:
A printing apparatus that performs a printing operation based on a print job, the printing apparatus comprising: a data processing unit that creates a job object for the print job and a page object for each page in the print job and each page object includes at least a pointer that points to a corresponding page memory, which stores print data for each page, and a corresponding thumbnail memory; a thumbnail creating unit that creates a thumbnail for each page to be printed by the print job and the thumbnail is stored in the corresponding thumbnail memory; and a Web page providing unit that provides a Web page in response to a request from a Web browser for browsing the Web page and the Web page shows a progress of the print job being performed by the printing apparatus by displaying at a same time the thumbnails of printed pages, which correspond to the print data of each corresponding page object, wherein the print data stored in the page memory that is pointed to by the corresponding page object is deleted by the data processing unit upon completion of printing of each page, and the corresponding thumbnail remains on the Web page.