Patent ID: 8452877

Claim:
A method comprising: as part of a login procedure, receiving user credential information via an input mechanism of a computing device that comprises a keyboard and a connector for connecting the computing device to a display device, the user credential information to initiate an active session with an operating system environment that comprises an application programming interface, the operating system environment executing on the computing device; using the application programming interface and a non-IP protocol communication interface of the computing device for communicating an IP address associated with the computing device and for communicating the user credential information from the computing device to the display device; storing the IP address and the user credential information in memory of the display device; interacting with the active session of the operating system environment executing on the computing device through communication between the computing device and the display device via the non-IP protocol communication interface; responsive to interruption of the communication via the non-IP protocol communication interface of the computing device, launching a remote desktop session on the display device for accessing the IP address stored in memory of the display device and transmitting the accessed IP address via an IP protocol network interface of the display device; responsive to the transmitting, receiving via the IP protocol network interface of the display device, a challenge issued by the operating system environment executing on the computing device associated with the IP address; responsive to receiving the challenge via the IP protocol network interface of the display device, the display device accessing the user credential information stored in memory of the display device and transmitting the user credential information from the display device via the IP protocol network interface of the display device to the computing device for authentication of the user credential information by the computing device for interacting with the active session of the operating system environment executing on the computing device; and responsive to authentication of the user credential information by the computing device, continuing interaction by the display device with the active session of the operating system environment executing on the computing device through communication between the display device and the computing device via the IP protocol network interface.