Patent ID: 8185641

Claim:
A computing device, comprising: a network interface that receives terminal information corresponding to a terminal connected to a network, the terminal information being received from the terminal; a storage device that stores profile information defining that the terminal is permitted to connect to the computing device; a central processing unit that: refers to the received terminal information and the stored profile information, and determines that the terminal is permitted to connect to the computing device; a display that displays a participant display area, the participant display area displaying a client name that corresponds to the terminal; and an input mechanism that accepts a user operation selecting the client name displayed in the participant display area to designate the terminal, wherein: the terminal provides image data to the computing and device, the computing device supplies the image data provided by the terminal to an image display apparatus connected to the network, the stored profile information comprises an hourly profile and a class makeup profile stored on the storage device, and determining that the terminal is permitted to connect to the computing device comprises the central processing unit determining that a student who has sent a connection request to the computing device is a student belonging to a class corresponding to a present time defined in the hourly profile, by referring to the hourly profile and the class makeup profile.