Patent ID: 7996889
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a PC card interface for detachably attaching a PC card constituting a predetermined device and executing data input/output on the PC card; storing means which stores an access table; access level setting means which sets an access level for the PC card by registering at least a device type and an ID extracted from the PC card and information of an access control, in the access table; detecting means which detects a presence/absence of a setting of the access level for a device of the mounted PC card or information thereof by extracting at least the device type and the ID from the PC card and checking the device type and the ID with the access table in the storing means; user interface means which requests the setting of an access level where access to the PC card is allowed or an access level where access to the PC card is inhibited to a user based on a detection result of the detecting means when a PC card not having the setting of the access level is mounted in the PC card interface; and control means which controls a permission or an inhibition of an access to the PC card itself in accordance with the ID extracted from the PC card and a setting of the access level by the access level setting means.