Patent ID: 7797469
Filing Date: 2010-09-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer peripheral, comprising: a housing including an externally-accessible port for directly communicating with a host computer; a receiver within the housing for receiving a wireless signal from a transmitter and converting the wireless signal into an instruction for the host computer, said receiver mimics the functionality of a keyboard of the host computer; a memory within the housing that stores image data displayed via the host computer; and a hub controller within the housing for connecting the receiver and the memory to the externally-accessible port, the host computer receiving the image data and keyboard instruction through the hub controller and externally-accessible port and wherein the keyboard instruction from the receiver controls the display by the host computer of the image data and wherein specified pins of the hub controller that are assigned within the hub controller to downstream ports are coupled to the receiver and the memory; and specified pins of the hub controller that are assigned within the hub controller to an upstream port are coupled to the externally-accessible port.