Patent ID: 8547570

Claim:
An access control information registration method in an image processing system in which at least one image processing apparatus is connected to a control apparatus via a network, said method comprising: a request step of, when an image processing apparatus is newly connected to said network, transmitting, to said control apparatus from said newly-connected image processing apparatus, a registration request together with attribute information of the newly-connected image processing apparatus, the registration request being a request for registering with the control apparatus access control information for controlling access authority to functions of the newly-connected image processing apparatus; and a registration step of, in said control apparatus, regarding said image processing apparatus which has transmitted the registration request, selecting, based on the attribute information of the image processing apparatus transmitted therefrom, one of a plurality of templates, generating, based on the selected template, the access control information, and registering the access control information, the plurality of templates being held in the control apparatus in advance and each of them describing information to be used as initial values of the access control information, wherein in said control apparatus, the access control is managed for each function of said image processing apparatus which has transmitted the registration request based on the access control information registered at said registration step.