Avocent Corporation

Mark M Nicolas

Christopher L Thomas

Douglas D Reed

David H Stafford

A multi-user KVM switch system is disclosed in which the KVM switch utilizes a pre-determined routine to determine which types of mice are connected to the KVM switch user ports. When the multiple mice communicate with a common computer via the KVM switch, the present invention provides a hierarchical mouse ranking structure which the KVM switch,uses to determine which of the disparate mouse driver types the KVM switch will emulate to the commonly selected computer. In this manner, disparate mouse types speaking to a common KVM switch and to a commonly selected computer by a mouse emulation type which is advantageously selected from a hierarchical ranking of mouse types in flash memory of the KVM switch.

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Huntsville, AL, United States of America

Mark M Nicolas