Patent ID: 7650444

Claim:
A communications device comprising: a processor; an embedded application-specific device driver for an application-specific display, wherein the embedded application-specific device driver executes on the processor and is configured to communicate data with a communication (COM) port via a serial port and to provide a video signal to the application-specific display; a COM port server that, together with a COM port client located on a separate device, establishes COM port redirection over a network and communicates with a serial port; a virtual serial port application connected between and co-located with the embedded application-specific device driver and the COM port server, wherein the virtual serial port application translates data communicated between the COM port server and the embedded application-specific device driver; and an embedded remote access application that executes on the processor and is configured to provide remote access to the application-specific display to a client on a separate device by communicating display data via the network.