Patent ID: 8891545

Claim:
A thin-client terminal system, comprising: a multiplexer communicatively coupleable to a server system by a multi-conductor cable including a first line and a second line, the multiplexer being configured to receive digital video synchronization data from the server system via the first line of the multi-conductor cable; video circuitry communicatively coupled to the multiplexer and configured to receive analog video component signals from the server system through the second line of the multi-conductor cable and the digital video synchronization data from the multiplexer, the video circuitry configured to output video signals to an analog display device, the video signals including the analog video component signals and the digital video synchronization data; a first serial bus interface component configured to connect to an input device; and a transcoding serial bus hub communicatively coupled to the first serial bus interface component and the multiplexer, the transcoding serial bus hub configured to: receive first input data from the first serial bus interface component, the first input data encoded in a first serial interface encoding format; and transcode the encoded first input data from a first serial interface encoding format to a second serial interface encoding format; and provide the transcoded first input data to the multiplexer, the multiplexer configured to transmit, via the first line of the multi-conductor cable, the transcoded first input data to the server system during a blanking interval on the analog display device displaying the video signals.