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AssigneeAgilent Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJohn William Forsyth Macartney, Richard John Easton
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Telephone traffic is displayed on a screen so a message source and a message destination are represented by lines, such as vertical lines, for example, each with a label denoting its location. An arrow joining the location lines points in the same direction as the message and has an associated label indicating message identity. Further message source and destination locations are denoted by further lines, such as vertical lines, for example, only if the location is additional to a location already displayed. Otherwise an already displayed line denotes the relevant location. Further labelled arrows denote further messages. Each successive monitored message is denoted by a further arrow at a lower place on the display than the arrows denoting previous messages so successive items are added in a non-overlapping bottom-down manner. The resultant display is a telephone network traffic pictorial representing the occurrence and progress of monitored messages selected for fault analysis, call-tracing, and fraud prevention.
A method for monitoring a signalling network, the method comprising receiving information in the form of data representative of the source and the destination of a monitored message carried by the signalling network, processing such received data to derive a display-driving signal for visual data display means which display-driving signal causes the display means to display a first line indicative of the source of the monitored message, and to display a second line indicative of the destination of the monitored message, the display-driving signal additionally causing the display means to display a transverse arrow linking the two lines from the source to the destination as indicated by the direction of the arrow.
A display system for monitoring a signalling network, the display system comprising a visual data display means and further comprising information processing means coupled to a traffic monitoring system to receive therefrom information comprising data representative of the source and the destination of a monitored message carried by the signalling network, wherein the information processing means functions to process such received data to derive a display-driving signal for the visual data display means which display-driving signal causes the display means to display a first line indicative of the source of the monitored message, and to display a second line indicative of the destination of the monitored message, the display-driving signal additionally causing the display means to display a transverse arrow linking the two lines from the source to the destination as indicated by the direction of the arrow.
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