Information processing method

An information processing method, comprising:

• acquiring information about an image forming device used in the past;
• generating screen data of a history display screen including the information about the image forming device used in the past;
• and
• causing a display device to display information about currently usable image forming devices and information about a currently unusable image forming devices with different display characteristics.

A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing program instructions which when executed by a processor of a user terminal causes the user terminal to perform a method comprising:

• acquiring use information from a local storage device of a user terminal, the use information regarding past use of image forming devices in a plurality of image forming devices;
• transmitting a status request to the image forming devices in the plurality of image forming devices used in the past;
• generating screen data for a history display screen based on the use information regarding the past use of the image forming devices;
• and
• causing a display device to display the history display screen with those image forming devices currently in a usable status based on a returned status request response being shown in one mode and those image forming devices currently in an unusable status based on a returned status request being shown in another mode.