Updating a print button for a document displayed on a user interface of a printer

A method for processing in an information processing apparatus to which a client device for processing a document and a printer having a browsing function and a printing function are connected via a network, the method comprising the steps of:

• (a) receiving print button information corresponding to a button for printing a document from said client device, wherein the print button information includes information of the document, a print setting of the document, a printing user of the document and a display form specified by a user of the client device, the display form indicating a display form change processing to be executed for changing the display form of the button of the document in a case that the document has been printed;
• (b) preserving the received print button information and a flag which is set for each user in order to show whether or not the document has been printed for each user;
• (c) transmitting information of the button to be displayed in an user interface of the printer based on the preserved print button information and the preserved flag, wherein the button to be displayed in the user interface of the printer is the button for printing the document which has not been printed based on the button specified by a user of the printer;
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• (d) when the user of the printer instructed said printer to print the document by specifying the button corresponding to the document and printing according to the instruction resulted in success in the printer, updating said flag so as to show that the document has been printed based on the button specified by the user of the printer, and transmitting information of the button which has been changed based on the display form of the button included in the print button information.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium which stores a computer program for allowing an information processing apparatus, to which a client device and a printer are connected via a network, to execute processes comprising:

• (a) receiving print button information corresponding to a button for printing a document from said client device, wherein the print button information includes information of the document, a print setting of the document, a printing user of the document and a display form specified by a user of the client device, the display form indicating a display form change processing to be executed for changing the display form of the button of the document in a case that the document has been printed;
• (b) preserving the received print button information and a flag which is set for each user in order to show whether or not the document has been printed for each user;
• (c) transmitting information of the button to be displayed in an user interface of the printer based on the preserved print button information and the preserved flag, wherein the button to be displayed in the user interface of the printer is the button for printing the document which has not been printed based on the button specified by a user of the printer;
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• (d) when the user of the printer instructed said printer to print the document by specifying the button corresponding to the document and printing according to the instruction resulted in success in the printer, updating said flag so as to show that the document has been printed based on the button specified by the user of the printer, and transmitting information of the button which has been changed based on the display form of the button included in the print button information.