Patent ID: 8189217

Claim:
An image processing system comprising an image processing apparatus and an information processing apparatus interconnected via a network, and wherein: the information processing apparatus comprises: a memory that holds in itself, one or more than one shared folder storing one or more than one data piece; an accepter that accepts a user's specification of a data piece to be processed by a job among those stored in the shared folders and a user's request of the job to be executed on the specified data piece; and a transmitter that transmits the job to be executed on the specified data piece, share user information indicating users who are permitted to access the shared folder storing the specified data piece, and access permission information defining the users' user authority level to use the data piece, which is set for the shared folder, collectively to the image processing apparatus, and the image processing apparatus comprises: a receiver that receives the job, the share user information and the access permission information; a job access authority information generator that generates for the users, job access authority information indicating one of a plurality of user authority levels to perform operations on the job received by the receiver, based on the access permission information received together with the job; a memory that records in itself, the job and the share user information received by the receiver and the job access authority information generated by the job access authority information generator, with their connections; and a controller that determines based on the users' user authority level indicated by the job access authority information, whether or not to permit operations on the job recorded in the memory, if any of the users gives an instruction to perform the operations on the job recorded in the memory.