Patent ID: 7030836

Claim:
A method to configure a collection of input and output devices on a multi-user computer-system, comprising the steps of: a) providing a multi-user computer; b) providing a plurality of non-display input and output devices, including at least a mouse and a keyboard for each of a plurality of computer users; c) attaching each of said computer users' non-display input and output devices to data buses on a multi-user computer; d) analyzing a Universal Serial Bus (USB) bus architecture of said multi-user computer to automatically find and associate each of said computer users' non-display input and output devices attached directly to said USB bus architecture into one or more collections of non-display input and output devices; e) attaching a display device to said multi-user computer for each collection of non-display input and output devices; f) displaying a user input prompt on one of said multi-user computer display devices; g) responding to said user input prompt with a user input event from one of said collections of non-display input and output devices intended to function with said user input prompt displayed on one of said multi-user computer display devices; h) assigning said displayed user input prompt to said collection associated with said manual response to add said display to said collection for said user that manually responded to said input prompt; and i) sequentially continuing steps f, g, and h until each one of said display devices are assigned to one of said collections and all of said collection of said input and output devices are configured.