Patent ID: 7782474

Claim:
A job managing apparatus that manages a job that is output to a peripheral device via a communication medium and transmits information related to the job to an information processing apparatus, comprising: a connecting unit that is connectable to a job management application in the information processing apparatus for notifying a user of the information related to the job; a determining unit that determines whether or not the information processing apparatus has the job management application, wherein the determination by said determining unit is made by determining whether or not said connecting unit connects to the job management application in the information processing apparatus; and a transmission unit that transmits the information related to the job to the job management application so as to cause the information processing apparatus to notify the user of the information by a first method peculiar to the job management application when it is determined by said determining unit that the information processing apparatus has the job management application, while transmitting the information related to the job to a message service of the information processing apparatus so as to cause the information processing apparatus to notify the user of the information by a second method stipulated as a standard method by an operating system of the information processing apparatus when it is determined by said determining unit that the information processing apparatus does not have the job management application.