Patent ID: 7502729
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of keyboard emulation, the method implemented with a first computer that controls a second computer, the first computer having a keyboard of a first keyboard type, the first computer configured with an identification of a second keyboard type and a key code conversion table, the second computer connected to the first computer by a data communications network, the second computer operating with key codes representing keystrokes on a keyboard of the second keyboard type, the method comprising: receiving in the first computer a key code representing a keystroke on the first keyboard; converting by the first computer the key code to a Universal Serial Bus (‘USB’) usage code representing a keystroke on a keyboard of the second keyboard type, the converting carried out in dependence upon the second keyboard type, and the key code conversion table; and providing the USB usage code from the first computer to a second computer through the data communications network.