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

Claim 5:
6. A testing device for diagnosing faults in a multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) local area network (LAN), the testing device comprising:
test hardware that implements MoCA and WiFi protocols and that includes a processor and a memory storing computer instructions that cause the processor to perform a testing method comprising:
responsive to selection of a test sequence, causing display of one or more instructional images that depict how an operator couples the test hardware to one or more of a wired component of the LAN and a wireless component of the LAN,
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 one or more of the wired component and the wireless component,
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).