Patent ID: 8253689

Claim:
A system to output an icon in response to a hot-key input, comprising: a microcomputer to sense an instruction input through a hot-key and to output a scan code corresponding to the instruction; a keyboard launcher to receive the scan code from the microcomputer, to analyze the scan code, and to generate a message that requests an output of a hot-key icon indicating the operation of the hot-key based on the analyzed scan code; a system basic input/output system (BIOS) to provide information required to output the hot-key icon; and a display manager separate from the keyboard launcher to receive the message generated by the keyboard launcher, to determine kinds of information items that are included in the information received from the system BIOS, and to output the hot-key icon based on the determination results; wherein, while the display manager is not operating, the system BIOS directly receives the scan code from the microcomputer, analyzes the scan code, and outputs the hot-key icon corresponding to the analyzed scan code.