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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2017
I/o Interconnect, Ltd., Santa Ana, CA (US);
Chih-Hsiung Chang, Taipei, TW;
Kun-Yuan Lin, Taipei, TW;
I/O INTERCONNECT, LTD., Santa Ana, CA (US);
Abstract
Present disclosure relates to a HID switch with security function that permits sharing of peripherals between multiple computers in a multi-network computer system. The HID switch is configured to connect at least one user input peripheral device and at least two host computers. The HID switch incudes a first directing module and a second directing module, wherein the two directing modules are physically isolated. The passages directed to the two directing modules are controlled by a physical peripheral selector. The physical peripheral selector is configured to selectively enable the first passage and the second passage, wherein only one of the first and second passages is enabled at a time. When one of the first or the second passages is enabled, there is only one host computer is electrically connected to the user input peripheral device via one of the directing modules.