Patent ID: 8010998

Claim:
A method of limiting remote control of a local computer system, comprising: receiving user input via an input device within the local computer system; encrypting, at the input device within the local computer system, the user input with a first coding procedure to provide an encrypted signal; communicating the encrypted signal to an input queue associated with the input device within the local computer system; decrypting, at the input queue within the local computer system, the encrypted signal using the first coding procedure to provide the user input; and determining that remote control access of the local computer system by a remote device is authorized to occur during a defined time period; disabling the decrypting, at the input queue within the local computer system, of any signals received at the input queue including the encrypted signal during the defined time period; and reenabling the decrypting, at the input queue within the local computer system, of signals received at the input queue including the encrypted signal after expiration of the defined time period.