This seems to be a very common problem as evinced by the many solutions below. A friend of mine asked me solve the problem for him because he was remotely acce

This seems to be a very common problem as evinced by the many solutions below. A friend of mine asked me solve the problem for him because he was remotely accessing a database and the company-issued laptop, VPN client, remote server and database server all had aggressive timeouts. Getting a cup of coffee meant logging in to everything again using long and complex company-issued passwords. We used one of the common Raspberry PI Human Interface Device (HID) Python packages to send a harmless keyboard or mouse event once every 5 minutes.