Patent ID: 6914604

Claim:
A system for displaying information, comprising: an extended bus bridge, said extended bus bridge including a first portion and a second portion, said first portion comprising a first local bus based on a first bus standard and a first interface to convert a serial signal into said first bus standard, said second portion comprising a second local bus based on said first bus standard and a second interface to convert said first bus standard into said serial signal, said first bus standard defined by a standard of a local internal bus of a computer; a graphics adaptor coupled to said extended bus bridge at the first portion of said extended bridge; a central processing unit (CPU) coupled to said second portion of said extended bridge; a monitor coupled to said graphics adaptor to display the information, such that said graphics adaptor is localized to said monitor and said graphics adaptor and said monitor comprise a display unit; and a serial link for coupling together said first and second portions of said extended bus bridge, such that at least one of a data bandwidth bottleneck between said graphics adaptor and said monitor and an electromagnetic radiation due to an analog/digital transmission line for display data between said graphics adaptor and said monitor is reduced.