Patent ID: 7730152

Claim:
A method for input control of multiple computing devices from a plurality of input devices, the method comprises: directly transmitting, by a master input device of a plurality of input devices, an initial connection request to multiple computing devices via a wireless channel, wherein the initial connection request identifies one of the multiple computing devices to produce a selected computing device; interpreting, by each of the multiple computing devices, the connection request, wherein the selected computing device determines that it is addressed by the connection request and each of other ones of multiple computing devices determine that it is not addressed by the connection request; in response to the initial connection request: directly transmitting, by the selected computing device, an initial connection response to the master input device via the wireless channel; and directly transmitting, by the selected computing device, a slave connection request to at least one slave input device other than the master input device of the plurality of input devices via the wireless channel; and in response to the slave connection request, directly transmitting, by the at least one slave input device, a slave connection response to the selected computing device via the wireless channel such that the master input device and the at least one slave input device provide input to the selected computing device via the wireless channel.