Patent ID: 8589526

Claim:
An information processing apparatus that is connectable to an image processing apparatus arranged to execute a plurality of types of jobs for processing images, and a data server, via a network, comprising: a reception unit adapted to receive audit information concerning a job executed by the image processing apparatus, from the image processing apparatus, the audit information containing attribute information indicative of attributes of the job and content information on an image processed by the job; a registration unit adapted to register, in the data server, at least one of the attribute information and the content information contained in the audit information received by said reception unit; a determination unit adapted to determine a type of the job which the audit information received by said reception unit concerns; and a control unit adapted to control, according to the type of the job determined by said determination unit, whether to cause said registration unit to register, in the data server, the attribute information and the content information contained in the audit information received by said reception unit or to cause said registration unit to register the content information in the data server without the attribute information being registered therein; wherein at least one of the reception unit, the registration unit, the determination unit and the control unit are implemented, at least in part, by at least one hardware processor connected to a memory.