Patent ID: 8427489

Claim:
A video processor, comprising: a housing, the housing including: at least one video connector for receiving video signals from a first computer external to the housing; a first information connector for receiving informational signals representing status or configuration information from a processor in the first computer but other than a main processor of the first computer; video capture circuitry for detecting that the informational signals representing status or configuration information indicate an error condition with respect to the first computer and for capturing and saving the video signals from the first computer external to the housing when the informational signals representing status or configuration information indicate the error condition with respect to the first computer; a packet-based communications controller for transmitting to a second computer external to the housing via a communications port first signals representing at least a portion of the captured and saved video signals received from the first computer across the at least one video connector when the informational signals representing status or configuration information indicate the error condition with respect to the first computer and second signals representing at least a portion of the informational signals received from the first computer across the first information connector indicating the error condition with respect to the first computer and for receiving peripheral signals from a peripheral device connected to the second computer remote from the first computer; and at least one peripheral connector for transmitting to the first computer the peripheral signals received by the communications controller from the peripheral device connected to the second computer remote from the first computer.