Patent ID: 8284424

Claim:
A work information generation system comprising: a plurality of terminals that display a document; and a server that conducts communications with the plurality of terminals, wherein each of the plurality of terminals comprises a notification section that sends notification of identification information given to each of the plurality of terminals and identification information of a document in association with each other to the server after the document has been displayed at each of the plurality of terminals, wherein the identification information given to each of the plurality of terminals is a device ID, and wherein the server comprises: a determination section that determines whether or not the same document has been displayed with a predetermined condition at the plurality of terminals based on the notifications received from each of the plurality of terminals; a reception time determination section that determines a reception time of the notification received from each of the plurality of terminals; a work information generation section that generates work information containing the identification information of the document, the identification information given to each of the plurality of terminals displaying the document and information relating to the predetermined condition in association with each other after determining that the same document has been displayed satisfying the predetermined condition at the plurality of terminals; and a work information retention section that records and retains the generated work information, wherein the predetermined condition includes the reception time of the notification determined by the reception time determination section, and wherein the determination section determines whether or not the notifications have been received from the plurality of terminals within a given time using the reception time, said notification indicating that the same document has been displayed at the plurality of terminals.