Abstract: An information management device and method for processing requests in the order the requests are sent without applying a load exceeding a permissible limit. The device and method includes receiving requests from a plurality of client devices, storing a management table managing the requests sent from the client devices based on the order of the requests sent, determining whether each request is registerable on the management table when the request is received by the receiving unit, registering the request on the management table when the request is determined by the determining unit to be registerable on the management table, and issuing a numbered ticket regardless of whether the request is determined to be registerable on the management table, and sending the numbered ticket to the corresponding client device from which the request was sent.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including a print screen display unit configured to display in a display device a print screen including document information items regarding documents stored in a device which communicates with the image processing apparatus through a network, a print request unit configured to request a server which communicates with the image processing apparatus through the network to print a document corresponding to a document information item selected from among the document information items included in the print screen, and a print-request limitation control unit configured to prevent a new print request from being issued for a period of time from when the print request unit requests the server to print the document to when registration of print reservation information regarding a print reservation of the document in a print reservation information management unit is detected.

Abstract: A printing apparatus is configured to perform printing in accordance with a print job and in accordance with a schedule registered before the printing. The printing apparatus includes an authority setting unit configured to, if authority of a user for the print job is authorized, set the authority of the user for the print job; a determination unit configured to, if a command to handle the print job is issued by the user, determine whether the user has the authority to perform the handling based on the authority set by the authority setting unit; and an execution unit configured to, if the determination unit determines that the user has the authority, execute a process according to the handling on the print job.

Abstract: Monitoring of a large number (for example, hundreds) of printing devices in parallel makes a processing load very heavy. Or, the monitoring extremely increases the cost of a monitoring computer. A connection-managing unit sequentially monitors the states of printing devices within the number of connections less than the number of printing devices. Meanwhile, a transfer-managing unit sequentially transfers printing jobs to the printing devices within the number of connections less than the number of printing devices. The state-monitored printing devices are sequentially switched without synchronizing the state monitoring of the printing devices with the end of the transfer of the printing jobs, i.e., without waiting for the end of the transfer of the printing jobs.

Abstract: A printing device monitoring method includes sequentially registering, in a monitored device queue, printing devices to which print jobs are to be output, monitoring the printing devices in accordance with the order of registration in the monitored device queue, determining if predetermined conditions are satisfied (S1803), interrupting monitoring of a printing device on the basis of the determination (S1806), and re-registering, in the monitored device queue, the printing device whose monitoring was interrupted.

Abstract: A control method for an image forming apparatus having means for managing a software application includes the steps of: detecting that a job is generated in the image forming apparatus; obtaining notification information of the detected job; and sending the notification information of the job to the application.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a printer connected to a network, comprises a search instruction unit for searching for a print job which satisfies specified conditions from among print jobs executed or scheduled to be executed by another printer connected to the network; a job acquisition instruction unit for acquiring all or a part of print jobs that satisfy the conditions, from the another printer to the printer; and an execution unit for executing the acquired print job; wherein the conditions are capable of specifying the identifier of a user who is a print job owner and the status of the print jobs executed or scheduled to be executed by the another printer.

Abstract: An information management device and method for processing requests in the order the requests are sent without applying a load exceeding a permissible limit. The device and method includes receiving requests from a plurality of client devices, storing a management table managing the requests sent from the client devices based on the order of the requests sent, determining whether each request is registerable on the management table when the request is received by the receiving unit, registering the request on the management table when the request is determined by the determining unit to be registerable on the management table, and issuing a numbered ticket regardless of whether the request is determined to be registerable on the management table, and sending the numbered ticket to the corresponding client device from which the request was sent.