Patent ID: 8643870

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a display device; a microprocessor and a memory embodying instructions which when executed on the microprocessor cause the microprocessor to execute: a display task of displaying information on the display device; a language monitor task that (i) transmits a print job received from a spooler to a printing apparatus; and a status monitor task that displays on the display device, a status of the printing apparatus and a processing status of the print job in process, wherein said status monitor task activates a print queue, which causes to display on the display device a list of a plurality of print jobs and a status of each of the plurality of print jobs in the spooler, to be provided as a module of an operating system, wherein the print queue is provided as a standard function of the operating system, wherein said language monitor task notifies (ii) a transmission completion to the spooler when said language monitor task has output the print job to the printing apparatus, (iii) the spooler that the print job is in progress when said language monitor task has received information indicating a processing status of the print job from the printing apparatus after outputting the print job to the printing apparatus, and (iv) a printing completion to the spooler when said language monitor task has received the printing completion from the printing apparatus, wherein the print queue causes to display on the display device, in accordance with a notification of the transmission completion, the status of the print job indicating a transmission to the printing apparatus, wherein the print queue causes to display on the display device, in accordance with the information indicating the processing status of the print job received from the printing apparatus, the status of the print job indicating that the print job is in progress, and wherein the print job of the print queue is deleted in accordance with a notification of the printing completion.