Patent ID: 7925767

Claim:
A peripheral device for controlling use of a plurality of features and/or services of a peripheral device by a user, the plurality of services including at least one of a printer service, a scanner service, a facsimile service and a copy service, the peripheral device comprising: a reception unit configured to receive, from a computer, authentication information corresponding to a user; an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user using the received authentication information; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the computer, access management information which specifies a feature and/or a service of the peripheral device available to the authenticated user from among the plurality of features and/or services of the peripheral device, or which specifies a feature and/or a service of the peripheral device not available to the authenticated user from among the plurality of features and/or services of the peripheral device, wherein a job is transmitted from the computer to the peripheral device after the access management information is transmitted to the computer, wherein the access management information is used for determining whether the user can use a feature and/or a service of the peripheral device necessary to perform the job.