Patent ID: 11876936
Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method comprising:
storing, in a memory, an entity list, each entity of the entity list including an associated set of permissions wherein each permission is associated with one or more user roles;
receiving login information from a user;
generating a display including a default entity associated with the user;
receiving, from the user, one or more user instructions for creating, editing or deleting an entity, in the entity list;
receiving, via the user interface, an a selection of an identified entity from the entity list;
determining, via a processor, a role associated with the user;
determining, via the processor, a subset of permissions associated with the identified entity in accordance with a determined role of the user;
displaying selectable indicia associated with each permission of the subset of permissions on the user interface, wherein the selectable indicia include
a selectable device user indicia that, when selected, enables user account management and associated multifunction peripheral operations,
selectable administrator indicia including the device user indicia and a device management indicia which, when selected, enables device management for the plurality of multifunction peripherals,
selectable operations indicia including the device user indicia and customer management indicia which, when selected, enables management of customers associated with the plurality of multifunction peripherals, and
selectable super user indicia including the device user indicia, the device management indicia and the operations indicia;

receiving a user selection of a displayed indicia; and
configuring or operating one or more multifunction peripherals in accordance with a selected indicia.