USB based virtualized media system
AssigneeAvocent Huntsville Corporation
InventorsJohn Hickey, Ken Power, Martin McDonell, Paul Hough, Vincent Carr, Tom Gibbs, John Browne, Aidan Quinn, Iain Campbell, Mark Leyden
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Abstract
In a virtualized desktop system an interfacing module is coupled to peripheral ports of a target device. The interfacing module is connected to a network. A digital user station is connected to the network. The digital user station is configured to be coupled to peripherals. The interfacing module and digital user station use respective hardware engines to communicate via said network.
Claims1
A virtualized desktop system for communicating information from a selected target server of a plurality of target servers to a selected workstation of a plurality of workstations over the network, comprising:
- corresponding digitizing interface pods (DIP) for corresponding ones of each of the plurality of target servers, each DIP connected between a corresponding one of the plurality of target servers and said network, each DIP including:
- DIP network communications hardware including a DIP network engine, a DIP management port communicating with the DIP network engine, and a DIP encryption engine communicating with the DIP network engine;
- DIP media processing hardware including DIP audio, DIP video, DIP mass storage, and DIP keyboard/mouse engines, each communicating with the DIP encryption engine of the DIP network communications hardware;
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- DIP target device hardware including a DIP video receiver communicating with the DIP video engine, a DIP audio codec communicating with the DIP audio engine, and a DIP USB controller having a low bandwidth USB portion communicating with the DIP keyboard/mouse engine and a high bandwidth USB portion communicating with the DIP mass storage engine;
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- corresponding digital user stations (DUS) for corresponding ones of each of the plurality of workstations, each DUS connected to said network and configured to be coupled to peripherals corresponding to peripheral ports of said workstations, including:
- DUS network communications hardware including a DUS network engine, a DUS management port communicating with the DUS network engine, and a DUS encryption engine communicating with the DUS network engine;
- DUS media processing hardware including DUS audio, DUS video, DUS mass storage, and DUS keyboard/mouse engines, each communicating with the DUS encryption engine of the DUS network communications hardware;
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- DUS target device hardware including a DUS digital video receiver and a DUS analog video receiver each communicating with the DUS video engine, a DUS audio codec communicating with the DUS audio engine, a DUS USB controller communicating with the DUS mass storage engine, and a DUS PS/2 interface communicating with the DUS keyboard/mouse engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.