Patent ID: 7519597

Claim:
A device comprising: a storage device storing files in each of a plurality of storage areas; a browsing device browsing and manipulating the files stored in the storage areas in said storage device; an authentication device authenticating a first user of the device; a setter setting the device settings; a first limiting device allowing the first user to set the device with the setter when the first user is authenticated as a system administrator by said authentication device, and inhibiting the first user to set the device by said setter when the first user is not authenticated as the system administrator; and a second limiting device allowing the first user authenticated by said authentication device to browse and to manipulate a storage area provided for the first user in the plurality of storage areas in said storage device with said browsing device, wherein when the first user authenticated by the authentication device is a box administrator different from a system administrator, said second limitation device allows the first user to browse and to manipulate another storage area provided for a second user authenticated by said authentication device and different from the box administrator in said storage device, and wherein even when the first user authenticated by the authentication device is the system administrator, the second limiting device prohibits browsing and manipulating of files stored in the another storage area provided for the second user authenticated by said authentication device and different from the system administrator.