Patent ID: 8836981

Claim:
An output distribution system, comprising: a first processing device configured to extract user-specific information from job data, the job data being generated in response to an output request input by a user using a terminal that accesses services provided by a first terminal server apparatus via a second terminal server apparatus; a second processing device configured to determine output destination information based on the user-specific information of the job data, wherein the output destination information includes terminal-specific information for identifying a terminal that is associated with the user specified by the user-specific information of the job data, the terminal-specific information being obtained using association data indicating an association between user-specific information and terminal-specific information, the association information being managed by the second terminal server apparatus, wherein the second processing device is configured to transmit an inquiry to the second terminal server apparatus to obtain the association data; and determine the output destination information based on terminal-specific information that identifies a terminal associated with the user specified by the user-specific information, the terminal-specific information being obtained using the association data; and a transmitter configured to transmit drawing data of the job data to an output destination based on the output destination information determined by the second processing device to cause the output destination to process the job data based on the output request.