US Patent 9348540 Output management device, output management system, and output management method

An output management device including: an acquiring unit that acquires a list of output data; a storage unit that stores sharing information of the data storage device; a first judgment unit that judges a state of a first output control device; a second judgment unit that judges the state of the second output control devices, when judged that the first output control device is not working and the data storage device is shared with the first and second output control device, and a setting unit that sets the output data possible to output when the first judgment unit judged that the first output control device is working or the second judgment unit judged that at least one of the second output control devices is working, and sets the output data impossible to output when the second judgment unit judged that all the second output control devices are not working.