Patent ID: 8200825

Claim:
A data processing system comprising: at least one user station, for sending and receiving keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) signals; a plurality of headless servers, wherein said headless servers provide output signals, but do not provide video format signals; a plurality of remote interface servers for emulating video format signals of said headless servers by means of terminal emulation software; a plurality of multiplexers for connecting at least one of the plurality of remote interface servers between said user station and a selected one of the headless servers wherein the user station communicates with a selected one of the headless servers via one of the plurality of multiplexers, a database for mapping relationship information between the multiplexers and the plurality of headless servers, and a switch server to communicate the relationship information to one of the remote interface servers, wherein the switch server is configured to select and make an automatic connection between the at least one user station and one of the plurality of remote interface servers, the one remote interface server being selected based on a type of resource requested by the at least one user station.