Multiple-point television meeting system and recording medium having recorded multiple-point television meeting control program therein

摘要

A meeting terminal opens a meeting by transmitting meeting setting information through a channel to a meeting state control section located within a control section of a multiple-point television meeting control device. The meeting setting information includes a mode, a name of a meeting and a password. The meeting state control section sets a meeting to a channel interface section and sets a password to a meeting terminal authentication section. A meeting terminal intending to attend the meeting connects a channel to the multiple-point television meeting control device and then transmits a password from a password posting section. The meeting terminal authentication section checks the received password, and makes a meeting terminal connection request to a channel interface section if the received password coincides with the password set at the time of opening the meeting. With this arrangement, the security of the multiple-point television meeting system is improved and it becomes possible to achieve an opening of a meeting with small load of a host terminal.