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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1999
Daryl Carvis Cromer, Cary, NC (US);
Richard Alan Dayan, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Dhruv M. Desai, Cary, NC (US);
Brandon Jon Ellison, Raleigh, NC (US);
Eric Richard Kern, Durham, NC (US);
Randall Scott Springfield, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A data processing system and method are described for permitting a server computer system to remotely disable an input device included within a client computer system coupled to the server utilizing a network. The server computer system transmits a message to the client computer system to disable the input device. In response to a receipt of the message, a network adapter included within the client computer system disables the input device by prohibiting a data stream output from the input device from being received by an input/output controller included within the client computer system.