Patent ID: 8898084
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An image formation apparatus comprising: an operation panel receiving an input of authentication information for personal authentication such that authentication can be verified; a storage device storing first right information for a plurality of general users; a general user setting permission portion permitting, when an authentication of an administrator is verified, initiation of a general user setting process for setting first right information of a general user from the plurality of general users; a general user registration portion registering, when said general user setting process is initiated, (i) information indicating whether a special right to set said second right information of the special user, different from the general user, is granted and (ii) function information indicating a function of which use right can be given to said special user, based on said first right information of said general user, in said storage device; a special right determination portion determining whether said general user, when authenticated, has a special right to set second right information of a special user, different from the general user, based on said first right information of said general user stored in said storage device; a processing unit permitting, when (i) said authentication of said general user is verified in said image formation apparatus and (ii) it is determined by said special right determination portion that said authenticated general user has said special right, initiation of a special user setting process for setting said second right information for the special user different from said authenticated general user whose first right information is already stored in said storage device; a processing unit registering, when said special user setting process is initiated, said second right information of said special user in said storage device separate from said first right information, within a range of said first right information corresponding to said authenticated general user when receiving permission of initiation of the special user setting process from the authenticated general user; a processing unit allowing, when said authentication of said special user is verified in said image formation apparatus, the use of at least one of a plurality of functions of the image formation apparatus according to said second right information of the special user, wherein said functions include a copy function, a print function, a scan function, a facsimile function, and a box function; and a processing unit invalidating said second right information of said special user registered in said storage device in response to satisfaction of a predetermined invalidation condition.