INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processing apparatus and a method for processing data which allow an OS to detect a key input from a console even if a serial console driver does not exist when an OS not using a keyboard function owned by BIOS has been installed. SOLUTION: A computer 1 includes: an input operation means for performing input operations; an input operation control means for controlling the operations from the operation control means; a data conversion means for converting console data, which is output from another information processing apparatus used as a console, into code data that is recognizable by an operating system (OS); a console data output means for outputting the console data to the conversion means; and a code data output means for outputting the code data converted by the conversion means to the input operation control means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT