NETWORK CONFERENCING SYSTEM, EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND DATA PRESENTATION METHOD

摘要

Various electronic equipments used in a network conferencing system areintegrally managed and presentation is made in a simple manner. When each attendantelectronic equipment becomes a chairman terminal having an equipment managementfunction, it inquires the availability of an electronic equipment used for a conference,then obtains information related to an available equipment from a client controlsection of a conference management server, and determines whether the electronicequipment used for the conference is an output electronic equipment such as aprojector or a generating electronic equipment such as a scanner. Thus, an icondisplay of the generating electronic equipment and an icon display of the outputelectronic equipment are provided while separating an area for the icon display of thegenerating electronic equipment and an area for the icon display of the outputelectronic equipment, by the display function of each attendant electronic equipment.