Job management apparatus and method of recognizing job completion, and control program used therewith

A method for managing a job sent from an information processing apparatus to a network device coupled thereto via a network to process the job, comprising the following steps:

• a managing step of managing job information representing status of the job processing by the network device which changes in a time series manner;
• a deleting step of deleting the job information after lapse of a predetermined time after completing the job processing by the network device;
• an acquiring step of acquiring the job information managed in the managing step via the network;
• a recognizing step of recognizing whether or not the job information has already been deleted in a case where the job information cannot be acquired via the network within the predetermined time;
• a job-completion recognizing step of recognizing that the job processing is completed responsive to at least one of recognizing in the recognizing step that the job information has already been deleted, and acquiring in the acquiring step the job information representing that the job processing is completed;
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• a displaying step of displaying a job completion when the job processing is recognized as being completed in the job-completion recognizing step.