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

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a processor;
a plurality of multifunction peripheral, each multifunctional peripheral comprising a document processing engine including one or more of a copy engine, a scan engine, a print engine and a fax engine;
a memory storing role data corresponding to each of a plurality of identified users associatively with one of a plurality of roles assigned to each user applicable to each of the plurality of multifunctional peripherals, the plurality of roles including a device user role, a device administrator role, an operations role and a super user role;
the memory further storing permission data corresponding to device permissions associated with each of the plurality of roles;
the memory further storing a unique set of permission groups, each permission group having 1 or more selectable entries, for each of the plurality of roles;
a user interface including a user input and a display;
a data interface;
the processor configured to show a login prompt on the display;
the processor further configured to receive login information responsive to the login prompt from an associated user via the user interface;
the processor further configured to determine a determined role of the user in accordance with received login information;
the processor further configured to further determine the determined role of the user in accordance with one of the plurality of roles;
the processor further configured to generate a role-specific display showings selectable indica that, once selected shows displayed device controls associated with the device permissions associated with the determined role, wherein
a selectable device user indicia that, when selected, enables user account management and associated multifunction peripheral operations,
a selectable adminstrator indicia including the device user indicia and a device management indicia which, when selected, enables device management for the plurality of multifunction peripherals,
a selectable operations indica including the device user indicia and customer management indicia which, when selected, enables management of customers associated with the plurality of multifunctional peripherals, and
a selectable super user indicia including the device user indicia, the device management indicia and the operations indicia;

the processor further configured to receive a selection of one or more of the displayed device controls from the user via the user interface; and
the processor further configured to configure or operate one or more document processing engine in accordance with the selected device controls.