Patent ID: 8898366

Claim:
An information handling system comprising: a processor configured to generate information; a video display subsystem interfaced with the processor and configured to process the information into video information for communication to a display; a host main link interfaced with video display subsystem and configured to connect to a display cable; a display configured to present the video information as visual images; a display main link interfaced with the display and configured to connect to a DisplayPort cable having first and second ends, the DisplayPort cable directly connected at the first end to the host main link and directly connected at the second end to the display main link, the DisplayPort cable configured to communicate the video information from the video display subsystem to the display across four serial links; and a peripheral directly coupled to the display and having associated peripheral information; wherein the display main link is further configured to communicate the peripheral information through the DisplayPort cable to the host main link, the display main link and host main link cooperating to selectively assign some of the four serial links to communicate the peripheral information while the remaining of the four serial links communicate the video information; and wherein the video information comprises DisplayPort information and the peripheral information comprises PCIe information.