Patent ID: 8150945

Claim:
A method for managing a computer user interface device, the method comprising: establishing a wireless communication link between a computer user interface device and a first personal computer system; utilizing the computer user interface device to provide a user interface between the first personal computer system and a user of the first personal computer system; establishing an inter-system communication link between the first personal computer system and a second system; communicating a predetermined signal from the computer user interface device to the first personal computer system; and in response to receiving the predetermined signal at the first personal computer system, at least: communicating a hand-off signal from the first personal computer system to the second system over the inter-system communication link, the hand-off signal indicating that the computer user interface device and a second computer user interface device are to be used to provide a user interface between the second system and a user of the second system instead of to provide a user interface between the first personal computer system and a user of the first personal computer system; establishing a second wireless communication link between the computer user interface device and the second system; and communicating user interface information between the second system and both of the computer user interface device and the second computer user interface device over the second wireless communication link.