Patent ID: 8027998

Claim:
A minutes production device comprising: a producing unit that produces, from conference information of a conference, minutes of the conference; a recommending unit that receives a keyword from among the conference information, searches a database for supplementary information that is related to the keyword, and returns the supplementary information as a result of the database search; an editing unit that adds the supplementary information to the minutes of the conference, the minutes of the conference to which the supplementary information is added being supplemented minutes of the conference; a conference contents display area that displays contents of the conference; a minutes display area that displays the supplemented minutes of the conference; and a memory that stores the supplemented minutes of the conference edited by the editing unit, wherein the minutes of the conference are a summary of the conference information of the conference, and wherein the editing unit includes an embedding unit that embeds location information in the supplemented minutes, the location information indicating a location at which the supplementary information returned by the recommending unit can be obtained.