Patent ID: 7689677

Claim:
A virtualized desktop system comprising: a network; a target device having a USB peripheral port, said target device also having a network interface connected to communicate with said network; an interfacing module having a interfacing module system power need and coupled to the USB peripheral port of said target device to receive said system power need from the USB peripheral port and to communicate operation data different from the system power need via the USB peripheral port, the interfacing module also communicating through a network port, different from the USB peripheral port, to said network; a digital user station, connected to said network, configured to be coupled to peripherals corresponding to peripheral ports of said target device thereby accessing and controlling the operation of the target device via a persistent session with the interfacing module over the networking using keep-alive signals and response along a communication path including said network, said network port of said interfacing module, and said USB peripheral port of the target device, wherein the digital user station controls a power operation of the interfacing module by sending operation data on said communication path to begin a power cycling the target device via said network to thereby remove the system power need received by the interfacing module from the USB peripheral port of the target device; and a management application to authenticate said interface device and digital user station, and wherein after the power cycling, the interfacing device initializes itself with a predetermined network address and using that network address sends a cold boot trap to said management application in response to a SNMP poll sent by the management application.