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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1999
Steven M. Ahern, Clare, IE;
John Curran, Clare, IE;
Colm Egan, Clare, IE;
Stefan Langejurgen, Vlotho/Exter, DE;
Anton Lischewski, Halle, DE;
Klaus Malinowski, Essen, DE;
Andreas Patzelt, Bunde, DE;
Andreas Szczepanek, Bielefeld, DE;
Charles H. Williams, Limerick, IE;
Cybex Computer Products Corp., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a switching system for interconnecting a plurality of computer user terminals or workstations each having user interface devices, including a keyboard, a video display unit, and a cursor control device or mouse (KVM), with a plurality of computers in a computer network, allowing a user to access any one or more of said computers from the user interface devices of a single terminal or workstation. It is denoted “high end” because of the potentially large number of computers which may be interconnected with the system.