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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1997
Satoru Watanabe, Kawasaki, JP;
Akihiko Obata, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An electronic conference aiding system having a structure in which one common information processing apparatus having a common display unit having a size sufficiently large for attendants to commonly watch display and a plurality of personal information processing apparatuses each having a personal display unit for exclusively creating and displaying information at a position adjacent to each attendant are connected into a network through data communication passage, wherein a comment, a reference material or the like is, as an object, related to a file displayed on the common display unit or the personal display unit in such a manner that the object is displayed at an unspecific position on the file to indicate the relation as a previous step in place of immediately embedding the object at a specific position of the file. The necessity of considering the position on the displayed file can be eliminated and the object is related to the overall portion of the file when the object is displayed. Thus, a larger number of objects are related to the file and displayed in a short time.