Patent ID: 9563581
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,G09G

Claim:
1. A method of operating a hosting computer to accept specialized keyboard and mouse input via a generic device redirection channel from a client computer, comprising: executing a device manager having respective interfaces to the generic device redirection channel and to a system queue of the hosting computer, the system queue being used to communicate keyboard and mouse input events to an operating system of the hosting computer, the system queue having a separate interface to a specialized virtual channel for receiving redirected keyboard and mouse input from standard keyboard and mouse devices connected to the client computer; by the device manager, identifying keyboard and mouse functions of other devices connected to the client computer and having respective device input redirected to the hosting computer via the generic device redirection channel, and for the identified keyboard and mouse functions establishing respective device context engines for handling input events therefrom; and by the device context engines: