Patent ID: 7523360

Claim:
An abnormality alarm system comprising: detecting means for detecting an abnormality in a job execution apparatus that executes jobs received from senders; storing means for storing (a) a user identifier corresponding to a sender of a job, and (b) a user attribute including information indicating whether the sender is a recipient user or a non-recipient user of abnormality alarm information; identifying means for identifying the user attribute of the sender of the job being executed when an abnormality occurred based on the stored information; alarm information recipient determining means for determining recipients of abnormality alarm information in accordance with the identification result obtained by said identifying means, wherein, when the user attribute indicates that the sender is a non-recipient user of abnormality alarm information, the alarm information recipient determining means determines at least one recipient other than the sender; and transmitting means for transmitting the abnormality alarm information to the at least one recipient thus determined.