HIGH-END KEYBOARD-VIDEO-MOUSE SWITCHING SYSTEM

摘要

The present invention provides a switching system for interconnecting a plurality of computer user terminals (1-16), having user interface devices including a keyboard (1b), a video display unit (1a) and a cursor control device (1c), with a plurality of computers (201-328) in a computer network, allowing a user to access any one or more of said computers from the user interface devices or a single terminal, comprising a switching hub (40) for routing keyboard and cursor control signals transmitted from any one (1) of the terminals (1-16) to a selected computer (201), and for routing video signals received from the said computer to said one of the terminals, said signals being in both digital and analogue form, a user interface module (17-32) for receiving said transmitted keyboard and cursor control signals, coupled between said plurality of computer user terminals (1-16) and said switching hub (40), a computer interface module (51-178) for receiving said received video signals, coupled between said plurality of computers (201-328) and said switching hub (40).