Patent ID: 8341697

Claim:
An image processing apparatus capable of communicating with an access control apparatus that manages authority information on a function of the image processing apparatus on a per-user basis and with a job history management apparatus that manages a job history of the image processing apparatus, comprising: an acquisition unit adapted to acquire authority information on a user logging in the image processing apparatus; a determination unit adapted to determine with reference to the authority information acquired by said acquisition unit, in a case where the image processing apparatus receives a user's instruction to execute a job, whether the job is executable without a history of the job being transmitted to the job history management apparatus or the job is executable on condition that the history of the job is transmitted to the job history management apparatus or the job is not executable; an execution unit adapted to execute the job except for a case where said determination unit determines that the job is not executable; and a transmission unit adapted to acquire, in response to said determination unit determining that the job is executable on condition that the history of the job is transmitted to the job history management apparatus, the history of the job executed by said execution unit and to transmit the acquired history of the job to the job history management apparatus, wherein authority information to be acquired by said acquisition unit from said access control apparatus includes permission information representing a condition under which execution of a function limited by the authority information to be acquired is permitted.