Patent ID: 8032464

Claim:
An information processing apparatus which transmits processing data regarding print processing to a plurality of processing devices, in order to perform the print processing according to a print order received from a client, said apparatus comprising: a central processing unit that executes a workflow manager program for controlling said apparatus to: receive, from the plurality of processing devices, notifications indicating that the respective processing devices have completed processing based on the processing data; determine whether the print processing has been completed, based on the notifications received from the plurality of processing devices; determine whether the client has acknowledged the completion of the print processing, when it is determined that the print processing has been completed; transmit to the plurality of processing devices a deletion instruction to delete information regarding the processing data, when it is determined that the client has acknowledged the completion of the print processing; and determine whether all of the plurality of processing devices have deleted the information regarding the processing data in accordance with the deletion instruction, wherein when it is determined that at least one of the plurality of processing devices has not deleted the information regarding the processing data, the deletion instruction is transmitted to the device which has not deleted the information regarding the processing data.