Various electronic equipments used in a network conferencing system are integrally
managed and presentation is made in a simple manner. When each attendant electronic
equipment becomes a chairman terminal having an equipment management function,
it inquires the availability of an electronic equipment used for a conference,
then obtains information related to an available equipment from a client control
section of a conference management server, and determines whether the electronic
equipment used for the conference is an output electronic equipment such as a projector
or a generating electronic equipment such as a scanner. Thus, an icon display of
the generating electronic equipment and an icon display of the output electronic
equipment are provided while separating an area for the icon display of the generating
electronic equipment and an area for the icon display of the output electronic
equipment, by the display function of each attendant electronic equipment.