Patent ID: 8763137

Claim:
An authority management apparatus configured to communicate with an external multifunction peripheral comprising: at least one microprocessor coupled via a bus to a memory, the microprocessor being programmed to control one or more of: a management unit configured to manage authority information indicating an authority concerning use of a plurality of functions of the external multifunction peripheral with respect to each of a first user and a second user different from the first user, wherein the external multifunction peripheral includes a scanner for reading a document and a printer for printing an image, and the plurality of functions of the external multifunction peripheral includes a scanning function and a printing function; a determination unit configured to determine whether the first user has an authority of permission information for permitting the second user to use a function of the external multifunction peripheral, the permission information indicating an authority transferred from the first user to the second user; an updating unit configured to update, by applying the permission information to the authority information concerning the second user, the authority information concerning the second user, in a case where the determination unit determines that the first user has the authority of the permission information; and a sending unit configured to send the updated authority information updated by the updating unit to the external apparatus according to a request transmitted from the external apparatus operated by the second user.