Patent ID: 7852873

Claim:
A device for managing a computer, comprising: an article of manufacture including a processing element, first and second Ethernet ports, a video port, a serial port, and an Ethernet hardware packet forwarding functionality that is operatively coupled with the first and second Ethernet ports which forwards Ethernet packets between or among a plurality of ports, regardless of whether the functionality is operating at a link layer or network layer; the device having a plurality of interfaces comprising any of a keyboard, mouse and video interfaces wherein the interfaces comprise at least a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection and a video input; wherein the processing element is programmed to facilitate a user remotely communicatively connected to the device over the first Ethernet port to interface a computer's keyboard, video port, serial port to an administration network port and to communicate information with the computer via at least one of the second Ethernet port, the video port, and the serial port whereby the device receives power from an attached computer; and wherein the device has an internal web server that uses HTTP to present web pages derived from a digitized video input.