Patent ID: 8504447

Claim:
A method for triggering a cost entry in the context of a job, which is issued in a networked print shop by a management information system, comprising: executing an application to continuously run as an entry module in a background on an operating system in a management information system, wherein the application monitors a cost relevant area in data storage for newly stored status reports in the cost relevant area; subsequently receiving, at the management information system, a job related status report in Job Definition Format from an execution system; categorizing the status report into one of multiple categories with a parser, wherein the multiple categories include at least one cost relevant category and at least one category that is not cost relevant; when the status report is categorized to the at least one cost relevant category, storing the status report to the cost relevant area; when the status report is stored in the cost relevant area, the application, in response to its monitoring of the cost relevant area, triggering a cost entry; and when the status report is categorized to the at least one category that is not cost relevant, storing the status report in another area in the data storage outside the cost relevant area.