Device and method for concurrently analyzing a plurality of telecommunications signal protocols
OwnerDavid Websterinventor
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Abstract
An improved method for telecommunication analysis and monitoring employing a logic analyzer device. The logic analyzer device provides a plurality of concurrent graphic depictions of different electronic signals under differing electronic protocols for signal error determination on a communications channel. Error source determination is enabled through the provided concurrent depiction of digital and analog signal characteristics in the differing protocols, including digital data packets, signal voltages and timing. Through this concurrent depiction the user can visually discern potential causation for electronic communication errors caused by non-continuous signal anomalies affecting one or more of the protocols.
Claims11
An improved method for telecommunication analysis and monitoring employing a logic analyzer device, comprising the steps of:
- operatively engaging said logic analyzer device to an electronic pathway communicating between a first telecommunication machine and a second telecommunication machine;
- capturing an electronic signal being sent through said electronic pathway from said first telecommunication machine and storing said electronic signal in electronic memory, wherein original and real-time voltages, and timing of said electronic signal, are maintained therein;
- discerning individual characteristic signals of a plurality of electronic characteristics from said electronic signal;
- employing a video screen to display a synchronized concurrent depiction of each respective said characteristic signal, adjacent the other said characteristic signals, whereby a user can discern at a position in said synchronized concurrent depiction, an error in a respective one of said electronic characteristics of said electronic signal from viewing said synchronized depiction.
An improved method for telecommunication analysis and monitoring employing a logic analyzer device, comprising the steps of:
- operatively engaging said logic analyzer device to an electronic pathway communicating between a first telecommunication machine and a second telecommunication machine;
- capturing an electronic signal being sent through said electronic pathway from said first telecommunication machine and storing said electronic signal in electronic memory, wherein original and real-time voltages, and timing of said electronic signal, are maintained therein;
- discerning individual characteristic signals of a plurality of electronic characteristics from said electronic signal;
- employing a video screen to display said individual characteristic signals, digital data packets in time segments concurrently alongside voltage and timing characteristics of said electronic signal, whereby a user can discern at a position in said synchronized concurrent depiction, an error in a respective one of said electronic characteristics of said electronic signal from viewing said synchronized depiction.
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