Patent ID: 8259988

Claim:
An image processing system including a computer and a plurality of image processing apparatuses connected via a communication network to said computer for processing an image data received from said computer, wherein said computer is adapted and configured to select an image processing apparatus that receives and processes said image data, among said plurality of image processing apparatuses; said image processing apparatus comprises a protection function information storing unit for storing protection function information indicating whether a data protection function for protecting a data to be processed is present or absent in said image processing apparatus, and said computer comprises: a protection function information acquiring unit for acquiring the protection function information from said plurality of image processing apparatuses connected to itself; and an output unit for outputting a list of data protection function based on the protection function information acquired by said protection function information acquiring unit, wherein the list synoptically represents what data protection function is present or absent in each of said one or more image processing apparatuses.