Patent ID: 7506148

Claim:
A host-side wireless interface that services communications between a wireless user input device and a serviced host, the host-side wireless interface comprising: a wireless network interface that wirelessly communicates with the wireless user input device; and a host interface communicatively coupled to the wireless network interface and to the serviced host, wherein during initiation of bootstrap operations and Operating System (OS) operations, the host interface presents to the serviced host an interface configuration corresponding to an OS host interface mode, and subsequently presents to the serviced host an interface configuration corresponding to a Basic Input Output System (BIOS) host interface mode such that the host interface operates in the BIOS host interface mode to allow input from the wireless user input device to a BIOS during the bootstrap operations when during the bootstrap operations, the BIOS does not recognize the interface configuration corresponding to the OS interface mode, but does recognize the interface configuration corresponding to the BIOS host interface mode.