ELECTRONIC APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING ORDER IN WHICH JOBS ARE EXECUTED, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

An electronic apparatus which is capable of executing jobs in an order in which the jobs were received while maximum power consumption is never exceeded. Based on a list stored in a storage unit, whether or not a job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list is determined. Completion notification indicating that the job has been completed is received from one of at least one external apparatus. Power consumption is obtained from all of the at least one external apparatus when the job is next on a waiting list, and the completion notification is received. The job is executed when a sum of total power consumption of the at least one external apparatus and power consumed when the electronic apparatus executes the job is smaller than maximum power consumption determined in advance.

主权项

1. An electronic apparatus which is capable of communicating with at least one external apparatus, and for which maximum power consumption by all of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus is determined in advance, comprising:
a storage unit configured to store a list indicating jobs planned to be executed by respective ones of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus, and indicating that an order in which the jobs planned to be executed are executed is an order in which the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus have received the jobs; an order determination unit configured to, based on the list stored in said storage unit, determine whether the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list; a receiving unit configured to receive, from any one of the at least one external apparatus, a completion notification indicating that the job executed by the external apparatus has been completed; an obtaining unit configured to obtain power consumption from all of the at least one external apparatus when said order determination unit determines that the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list, and said receiving unit receives the completion notification; and an execution unit configured to execute the job planned to be executed when a sum of total power consumption of the at least one external apparatus obtained by said obtaining unit and power consumed when the electronic apparatus executes the job planned to be executed is smaller than the maximum power consumption.