Patent ID: 7983402

Claim:
A controlling system for an electronic peripheral device, comprising; an electronic peripheral device having a plurality of communication interfaces that are respectively connected with different communication networks, and having a plurality of functions; at least one terminal device connectable to one of the communication interfaces of the electronic peripheral device via one of the communication networks so that the terminal device can use at least one of the plurality of functions based on which communication interface an instruction from the terminal device is received through when the at least one of the plurality of functions is determined to be available; a function availability setting system, by which availability of at least one of the plurality of functions to the terminal device is set; and a function execution controlling system which controls execution of the at least one of the plurality of functions based on which communication interface the instruction is received through so that the availability of the at least one of the plurality of functions set by the function availability setting system is applied to the terminal device that issued the instruction.