Patent ID: 8402084

Claim:
A system, comprising: a remote computer system including: a remote host embedded controller interface (HECI) driver; and a HECI simulator to: intercept commands directed to the HECI driver from software running on the remote computer system; and route the commands as HECI messages to a local computer system; receive HECI messages sent from the local computer system; and pass the received HECI messages as responses to the software running on the remote computer system; and the local computer system including: a HECI message routing table to list a set of response target addresses within the local computer system and a set of response target addresses within the remote computer system; and a HECI bridge, the bridge to receive the HECI messages sent from the remote computer system; pass the received HECI messages to a local HECI driver to be operated upon; receive responses to the received HECI messages from the local HECI driver; and route the responses as HECI messages to the remote computer system.