Patent ID: 8031173

Claim:
A computer switching device for a computer system composed of a plurality of computers, each of which output a display and receive input from a keyboard and a mouse, said computer switching device comprising: means for forming a display screen by synthesizing the display outputs of said plurality of computers; means for automatically changing brightness of the display output of each of said plurality of computers simultaneously on the display screen; means for setting one or more of the plurality of computers as targets for resetting a cursor position; means for determining if a computer of the plurality of computers is set as a target for resetting a cursor position; and means for sequentially transmitting arbitrary mouse operation information to only said computers determined to be targets to align cursor positions on the synthesized display outputs for said computers set as targets if the position of the cursor for each computer set as a target is different, wherein the brightness of the display output of one or more computers of said plurality of computers receiving input from said keyboard and mouse on said display screen is different from the brightness of the display output of one or more other computers of said plurality of computers, and wherein information regarding display resolution of each of said plurality of computers is obtained from a frame buffer corresponding to each of said plurality of computers, and only mouse operation information required to move a cursor to a predetermined position on the display screen with the resolution of the display of each of said computers determined to be targets is transmitted to each of said computers determined to be targets.