Device management apparatus, device management method, and storage medium

Abstract

A management apparatus that promotes productivity of management of a plurality of devices and of a plurality of functions of the device. The management apparatus for managing a plurality of functions for use in a device by a user, wherein each function has one or more functional elements, the apparatus including a first memory module that stores correspondence data describing a relationship between a functional element and unit configuration information of the device, the unit configuration information indicating units of the device used by the functional element, a second memory module that stores use authority data corresponding to the user, a management module that selects an available function based on the correspondence data and the use authority data, and sends the functional elements corresponding to the selected function to the device.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.