Patent ID: 7787143

Claim:
An information processing method of recording or accumulating job log information related to a plurality of jobs issued from a client computer to an image forming apparatus, comprising: an acquisition step of acquiring the job log information from the client computer or the image forming apparatus, wherein the job log information includes driver information and port information, the driver information identifying a driver program which is performed in the client computer and generates the issued job and the port information identifying a port managed as an output destination of the issued job by the client computer; a registration step of registering, in a non-recording target database, driver information and port information to specify job log information related to an issued job which is not accompanied by a printout as a condition to identify job log information not to be accumulated in a final log; a driver information acquisition step of acquiring the driver information from the job log information acquired in the acquisition step; a port information acquisition step of acquiring the port information from the job log information acquired in the acquisition step; a determination step of determining whether or not to accumulate the job log information in the final log by using the job log information acquired in the acquisition step, in accordance with a determination as to whether or not at least one of the driver information acquired in the driver information acquisition step and the port information acquired in the port information acquisition step is registered in the non-recording target database; and a merging step of merging into the final log the job log information determined in the determination step to be accumulated, wherein, in the registration step, the driver information related to a driver used for outputting a PDF file to the client computer or an external device is registered in the non-recording target database, and wherein, in the registration step, the port information indicating that a job is output to a device which does not have a printing function is registered in the non-recording target database.