Data Transfer Systems, Switches, and Method of Providing the Same

• US 20090319909A1
• Filed: 06/19/2008
• Published: 12/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ATEN International Company Limited
• Original Assignee: ATEN International Company Limited
• Inventors: LIANG, Yu-Ting, HSUEH, Chao-Hsuan
• Application Number:
  US12/142,587
• Publication Number:
  US 20090319909A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]

Abstract

A method of transferring data among computers coupled to a switch device is described. The switch device is configured to switch an access between the computers. In this method, data is received from a first computer and transferred to each clipboard of the computers by the switch device by a first user command.

Claims

1. A method of transferring data between a first computer and a second computer, comprising:

connecting a KVM switch between the first computer and the second computer;

receiving a first user command from the first computer, the first user command being configured to identify a data content in the first computer; and

transmitting the data content to the second computer, the data content being stored in a clipboard area of the second computer, the clipboard area being configured to allow the second computer to access the data content upon receiving a second user command.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the KVM switch couples to at least one set of user input and display devices with the first and second computers.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a program being executed in the first and second computers and the program being configured to receive the first and second user commands.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user command comprises at least one of a copy and a cut command and the second user command comprises a paste command.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the data content to the second computer is achieved through transmitting the data content using at least one of an internet protocol (IP), a transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP), a bluetooth protocol, and a universal serial bus (USB) protocol.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data content comprises at least one of a text, a formatted text, an image, a formatted image, an electronic file, and a file folder.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the data content comprises a desktop of the first computer.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the clipboard area is a memory area of the second computer, and the data content is stored in the clipboard area after receiving the first user command and before receiving the second user command.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the data content to the second computer is in response to the first user command.

10. An user-interface switch system comprising:

a set of connectors configured to be coupled to a set of console devices including input and display devices;

a first interface configured to be coupled to a first computer and to identify a data content on the first computer in response to a first user command via the set of connectors; and

a second interface configured to be coupled to a second computer, and to provide the data content to the second computer, the data content being stored in a clipboard area of a memory of the second computer, the clipboard area being configured to allow the second computer to provide the data content upon receiving a second user command via the set of connectors.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the first and second computers further comprise a program executed therein and configured to receive the first and second user commands respectively.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the first user command comprises at least one of a copy and a cut command to identify the data content on the first computer and the second user command comprises a paste command.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein at least one of the first and second interfaces comprises an interface compatible with at least one of an internet protocol (IP), a transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP), a bluetooth protocol, and a universal serial bus (USB) protocol.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the data content comprises at least one of a text, a formatted text, an image, a formatted image, an electronic file, and a file folder.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the clipboard area is a memory area of the second computer, and the data content is stored in the clipboard area after receiving the first user command and before receiving the second user command.

16. The system of claim 10, transmitting the data content to the second computer via the second interface in response to the first user command.

17. The system of claim 10, further comprising an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and a microcontroller unit (MCU) coupled with the first and second interfaces.

18. The system of claim 10, further comprising a third interface configured to be coupled to the second computer and to transmit the second user command to the second computer via the set of connectors.

19. A method of transferring data between a first computer, a second computer and a third computer, comprising:

connecting a KVM switch between the first, second and third computers;

receiving a first user command from the first computer, the first user command being configured to identify a data content in the first computer;

transmitting the data content to the KVM switch from the first computer; and

broadcasting the data content to the second and third computers from the KVM switch, the data content being stored in a clipboard area of each of the second and third computers, the clipboard area being configured to allow one of the second and third computers to provide the data content upon receiving a second user command.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the clipboard area is a memory area of each of the second and third computers, and the data content is stored in the clipboard area of one of the second and third computers after receiving the first user command and before receiving the second user command.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein transmitting the data content to the second and the third computers is in response to the first user command.

22. A method of transferring data between a first computer and a second computer, the method comprising:

receiving a first user command from the first computer, the first user command being configured to identify a data content; and

providing the data content to the second computer, the data content being stored in a clipboard area of the second computer, the clipboard area being configured to allow the second computer to provide the data content upon receiving a second user command.