Patent ID: 7688851

Claim:
A method comprising: configuring a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) controller chipset in a computer to generate a first System Management Interrupt (SMI) when an internal communication port (ICOM port) receives an outgoing communication traffic from the computer; in response to the ICOM port receiving the outgoing communication traffic, the first SMI redirecting the outgoing communication traffic to a virtual communication port generated by the BIOS controller chipset; transmitting the outgoing communication traffic from the virtual communication port to a real communication port associated with a remote system; receiving an incoming communication traffic, destined to the computer in the multi-computer chassis, at the COM port associated with the remote system; encapsulating the incoming communication traffic at the remote system; transmitting the encapsulated incoming communication traffic from the remote system to the Ethernet I/O device via the management module; decoding the encapsulated incoming communication traffic in the Ethernet I/O device; transmitting the decoded incoming communication traffic from the Ethernet I/O device to the USB device in the computer.