Patent ID: 8885806
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A conference progress supporting apparatus supporting progress of a conference, the conference progress supporting apparatus comprising: a conference information storage unit configured to associate and store agenda identification information, which identifies an agenda of the conference, with participant identification information, which identifies a plurality of participants of the conference; an elapsed-time information storage unit configured to associate and store the agenda identification information with information items including the participant identification information, speech start time information indicating start time of a speech of each of the plurality of participants, speech end time information indicating end time of the speech of each of the plurality of participants, and speech elapsed time information indicating elapsed time of the speech since the start time of the speech of each of the plurality of participants; a speech status presentation unit configured to display on a display unit an area, in which each of the plurality of participants is associated with the agenda, and speech time information, which indicates a speech time of each of the plurality of participants, corresponding to the agenda related to the area, based on the agenda identification information and the participant identification information stored in the conference information storage unit; a speech information acquisition unit configured to, in response to an operation applied to a portion of the area, which corresponds to a participant of the plurality of participants, displayed on the display unit, acquire the agenda identification information and the participant identification information corresponding to the portion of the area on which the operation has been applied; and an elapsed-time management unit configured to, in response to the acquisition of the agenda identification information and the participant identification information corresponding to the portion of the area on which the operation has been applied, wherein the speech status presentation unit is configured to display the accumulated elapsed time updated by the elapsed-time management unit in the area as information indicating speech time of the participant of the plurality of participants, which corresponds to the portion of the area on which the operation has been applied, and wherein the speech status presentation unit is configured to arrange the speech time information indicating each speech on a time axis, and to present a time period when no information indicating a speech is arranged and a time period when plural information indicating speeches are overlapped.