Patent ID: 8873095

Claim:
One or more non-transitory storage media storing instructions which, when processed by one or more processors, cause: storing a plurality of scan process definitions, each scan process definition of the plurality of scan process definitions including (1) scan settings data that defines a set of instructions for acquiring image data and (2) user access right data that identifies a set of one or more users who are allowed to access said each scan process definition; storing access delegation data that associates one or more delegatees with one or more delegators; wherein storing access delegation data comprises storing one or more mappings separate from the plurality of scan process definitions; wherein each mapping of the one or more mappings associates delegatee data that identifies a set of one or more delegatees with delegator data that identifies a set of one or more delegators; receiving, from a scan device, user identification data that identifies a user of the scan device; determining, based on the user identification data, whether the user is identified in the access delegation data; determining whether the user is identified in the access delegation data comprises, for each mapping of the one or more mappings, determining whether the user identification data is included in the delegatee data of said each mapping; in response to determining, based on the user identification data, that the user is identified in the access delegation data, identifying a particular scan process definition of the plurality of scan process definitions; wherein the user access right data included in the particular scan process definition identifies a delegator that is associated with the user in one of the one or more mappings; sending, to the scan device, the particular scan process definition.