Signal Egress Alarm

Abstract

Notification of a detected potential egress signal from a Broadband Communications System (BCS) is expedited by detection of signal Strength at a mobile detector which is above a user-specified threshold. When a potential egress signal having a strength above a user-specified threshold is detected, it is reported with other, lesser strength egress signals, immediately over a wireless link to a central server which is dedicated to a given BCS or which provides a notification service to a plurality of such systems. The central server may provide additional processing such as for authenticating a detected signal as an egress signal and/or estimating egress signal strength at a shielding flaw and, responsive to a detected signal having a signal strength above the user-specified threshold, sending notifications of the signal egress detection or shielding flaw a user-specified number of times at user-specified intervals while the signal egress persists or until earlier terminated.

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