Patent ID: 7886025
Filing Date: 2011-02-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing unit for operating a server on a network by a remote control, the information processing unit comprising: an output unit that outputs a request to start saving key code and a request to start interrupting key code; a key code receiving unit that, according to the request to start saving key code, obtains a key code input from a keyboard of the information processing unit and saves the input key code in a memory, before an operating system, which is executed in the information processing unit, obtains the input key code, a key code control unit that, according to the request to start interrupting key code, interrupts a transmission of the input key code to the operating system that supports execution of the first and second applications, thereby preventing the first application, which remotely operates the server, from being changed to the second application, in response to the input key code; and a communication unit that transmits to the server, the key code saved in the memory.