Patent ID: 9134945
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: G06F,G09G,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A zero client device, comprising: a housing; a transcoding processing unit, comprised in the housing, wherein the transcoding processing unit comprises a first circuit board, wherein the transcoding processing unit implements a zero client protocol for conducting zero client sessions, and wherein the transcoding processing unit comprises at least one Universal Serial Bus (USB) port and supports peripheral remoting via USB protocol; a communications processing unit, comprised in the housing and directly interfaced to the transcoding processing unit, wherein the communications processing unit comprises a second circuit board, wherein the communications processing unit implements a software based USB remoting protocol that supplements the at least one USB port of the transcoding processing unit, wherein to supplement the at least one USB port of the transcoding processing unit, the communications processing unit implements one or more USB ports for out-of-band communications implementing a supplemental peripheral communication channel; and an uplink network connection, comprised in the housing, wherein the uplink network connection is comprised in or directly interfaced to the communications processing unit for connecting to a network; and wherein the zero client device has no user-modifiable storage medium, but does include one or more memory elements for operation of the zero client device; wherein the communications processing unit is configured to: wherein the transcoding processing unit is configured to: wherein the communications processing unit is configured to: wherein the transcoding processing unit is further configured to: