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US 2010/0161871 A1Published application
Computer
OwnerMusa Ibrahim Kakishinventor
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Abstract
An all-in-one computer has a switch button is exposed on the front of the housing for a KVM switch, that is a switch for switching manual input data and VDU data. The KVM switch has a keyboard data input connection, a mouse data input connection, and two VDU data input connections. It has two keyboard and two mouse data output connections and one VDU data output connection. It connects a keyboard and mouse to either of the all-in-one computer and an external, laptop computer and either of their VDU data signals to the all-in-one's VDU.
Claims22
A computer adapted to receive external keyboard, mouse and video data, the computer comprising:
- a housing;
- a visual display unit (VDU) mounted on the housing;
- a central processor unit (CPU) contained in the housing and adapted to accept to keyboard and mouse input and to provide video data output;
- keyboard and mouse data input means on mounted on the housing;
- video data input means mounted on the housing;
- keyboard and mouse data output means mounted on the housing;
- keyboard, mouse and video (KVM) switch means mounted on or in the housing and connected to:
- the keyboard and mouse data input means to receive external keyboard and mouse data and switch this data to the central processor unit in one state of the switch means or to the keyboard and mouse data output means in another state of the switch means and to
- the CPU and the video data input means:
- to receive video data from the CPU in one state of the switch means and switch this data to the VDU and
- to receive external video data from the video data input means in another state of the switch means and switch this data to the VDU and
- means for changing the state of the KVM switch means.
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