Patent ID: 11863420
Assignee: SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method of diagnosing faults in a multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) local area network (LAN) including a WiFi segment, the method comprising:
responsive to selection of a test sequence that includes testing of the WiFi segment, causing display of one or more instructional images that depict how an operator couples test hardware to a wireless component of the LAN for testing of the WiFi segment;
invoking the test hardware to perform a test by automatically selecting, in dependence upon a problem generically identified by a user, a test to perform from the test sequence, and invoking the test hardware with parameters that control interaction with the wireless component of the LAN;
automatically evaluating results returned by the test hardware using evaluation criteria of the test sequence, without user interpretation of the results returned and in dependence upon a threshold associated with the evaluation criteria, to determine at least one of (i) whether to report a recommendation to replace or repair an identified component, and (ii) whether to (a) repeat the causing display of one or more instructional images, (b) invoke the test hardware to perform an additional test and (c) automatically evaluate results returned by the additional test; and
proceeding as determined according to (i) or (ii).