Patent ID: 8023980

Claim:
A server for managing talking between a plurality of phone terminals, comprising: a floor managing portion that grants a floor to a first phone terminal based upon a first floor request received from the first phone terminal; a server receiving portion that receives, during a time period when the floor is granted to the first phone terminal, first voice data from the first phone terminal that is granted the floor and second voice data from a second phone terminal that is not granted the floor; a storing portion that stores the second voice data from the second phone terminal that is not granted the floor as a first recorded message; and a server transmitting portion that transmits the first voice data and the first recorded message, wherein the server transmitting portion transmits the first voice data to remaining phone terminals in the plurality of phone terminals other than the first phone terminal during the time period when the floor is granted to the first phone terminal and transmits the first recorded message to remaining phone terminals in the plurality of phone terminals other than the second phone terminal after releasing the floor from the first phone terminal to which the floor has been granted, wherein the storing portion stores the first recorded message from the second phone terminal with identification information used to identify the second phone terminal, wherein the storing portion stores the first recorded message when a number of recorded messages stored by the storing portion for the second phone terminal is less than a predetermined number of recorded messages for the second phone terminal specified by the identification information, wherein respective predetermined numbers of recorded messages for the plurality of phone terminals are set for the plurality of phone terminals and specified by respective identification information, wherein the server transmitting portion inhibits transmission of the first recorded message to the second phone terminal when transmitting the first recorded message to the remaining phone terminals in the plurality of phone terminals other than the second phone terminal, and wherein the server transmitting portion reads the identification information stored with the first recorded message, identifies the second phone terminal from the identification information, and inhibits transmission of the first recorded message to the second phone terminal as identified from the identification information.