Keyboard video mouse switch for multiple chaining and a method for switching electrical signals thereof
AssigneeAten International Co., Ltd.
InventorSun-Chung Chen
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Abstract
A local electrical signal and a remote electrical signal are received for switching. When destinations of the local and remote electrical signals are the same local signal input device, only one of them is allowed to be transmitted to the destined local signal input device. When destinations of the local and remote electrical signals are at least one remote signal input device, only one of them is allowed to be transmitted to the destined remote signal input device.
Claims20
A keyboard, video, mouse (KVM) switch, suitable for a plurality of signal output devices sharing a plurality of signal input devices by a plurality of KVM switches, the KVM switch comprising:
- a chain switching array having a plurality of chain input ports, a plurality of first chain output ports and a plurality of second chain output ports, wherein the chain input ports are connected to other second chain output ports of another first KVM switch, the first chain output ports are connected to the signal input devices, and the second chain output ports are connected to other chain input ports of another second KVM switch;
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- a local switching array having a plurality of local input ports, a plurality of first local output ports and a plurality of second local output ports, wherein the local input ports are connected to the signal output devices, the first local output ports are connected to the signal input devices, and the second local output ports are connected to the other chain input ports of the second KVM switch;
- wherein when destinations of the first chain output port and the first local output port are the same, the first chain output port and the first local output port are not allowed to transmit simultaneously, and when destinations of the second chain output port and the second local output port are the same, the second chain output port and the second local output port are not allowed to transmit simultaneously.
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