US 12,032,762 B2
IP KVM devices
Douglas A. Reynolds, Fort Collins, CO (US); Peter Andrew Seiler, Fort Collins, CO (US); Byron A Alcorn, Fort Collins, CO (US); Eric John Gressman, Fort Collins, CO (US); Gregory Mark Hughes, Fort Collins, CO (US); J. Michael Stahl, Fort Collins, CO (US); Patrick S Anderson, Fort Collins, CO (US); and Joseph-Jonathan Salzano, Fort Collins, CO (US)
Assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
Appl. No. 18/249,294
Filed by Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 21, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/056639
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 17, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/086520, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0400939 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/038 (2013.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/038 (2013.01) [G06F 13/382 (2013.01); G06F 2203/0383 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0042 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An internet protocol (IP) keyboard, video, mouse (KVM) device comprising:
a universal serial bus (USB) port to be communicatively coupled to a host device;
a display port to be communicatively coupled to the host device;
a network port to be communicatively coupled to a network;
a Bluetooth transceiver;
a memory storing a unique identifier to be transmitted to a client device via Bluetooth in response to establishing a first connection between the client device and the IP KVM device, the unique identifier used by the client device to establish a second connection to the IP KVM device, wherein the first connection is a Bluetooth connection and the second connection is a remote connection different from the first connection; and
a processor communicatively coupled to the USB port, the display port, the network port, and the Bluetooth transceiver, the processor to, in response to the first connection, provide the unique identifier to the client device, and establish the second connection in response to a request from the client device generated using the unique identifier.