Patent ID: 6999995

Claim:
A method of controlling operations on a host computer using a control computer, comprising: receiving a plurality of received data packets from the control computer, the received data packets including information to control the at least one operation of at least one device on the host computer; transmitting a plurality of transmitted data packets from the host computer to the control computer, the transmitted data packets including information based on controlling one or more operations of the host computer; and processing the received data packets and the transmitted data packets, wherein the processing includes: initiating a first timer interrupt; initiating a second timer interrupt at a time interval after the first timer interrupt; determining whether a data packet has been received from the control computer during the time interval; and if a data packet has been received from the control computer during the time interval, unpacketizing the data packet, sending associated unpacketized data to one or more devices in the host computer, and controlling at least one operation of the one or more devices based on the unpacketized data.