Patent ID: 7760769
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving a multiplexed serial data stream from a single physical serial port of a computing device, the multiplexed serial data stream having multiple serial data streams combined together from multiple serial data sources of the computing device that send serial data to the serial data port, at least one of the serial data streams to be a framed data stream formatted in accordance with a protocol having framing, and at least one of the serial data stream to be a non-framed data stream not having a structured data stream; filtering the multiplexed serial data stream to extract the framed data stream from the multiplexed serial data stream to generate the framed data stream; transmitting the extracted framed data stream to a session on a remote computing device; and forwarding the non-framed data stream from the multiplexed serial data stream to a serial console.