Patent ID: 7761510

Claim:
A conference system comprising: a terminal to display a document presented by a presenter in a conference and to receive participant inputted information from a participant of the conference for enabling an exchange of opinions between participants; and a document storage unit to store the document being presented by the presenter and the participant inputted information; said document storage unit storing image data for each respective page of the document being presented by the presenter; said document storage unit storing shared overwrite data provided for each page, the shared overwrite data including shared presenter inputted memos or shared participant inputted memos; said document storage unit storing personal overwrite data for each participant provided for each page, the personal overwrite data including personal memos inputted by the participant, said personal overwrite data being associated with a specific terminal; said terminal including, a pre-selection unit to determine if a data size of a shared participant inputted memo is greater than a predetermined value, said pre-selection unit determining if a data size of a personal memo is greater than the predetermined value, a read unit to read out from said document storage unit image data corresponding to each page of the document being presented by the presenter, said read unit selectively reading image data corresponding to shared participant inputted memos being determined by said pre-selection unit to be greater than the predetermined value, said read unit selectively reading image data corresponding to personal memos being determined by said pre-selection unit to be greater than the predetermined value, a display controller to display a list identifying the shared participant inputted memos and personal memos selectively read out by said read unit, a selection unit to enable a participant to individually select the listed shared participant inputted memos and personal memos, and an image compiler that compiles, for each page, the image data corresponding to the selected shared participant inputted memos and the image data corresponding to the selected personal memos together with the image data of the document to create a compiled page for each page.