Patent ID: 7272750
Filing Date: 2007-09-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer method for intelligent and interactive testing one or more equipment under test, comprising: connecting said one or more equipment under test to a testing system, wherein said one or more equipment under test is off-line from the normal installation of said one or more equipment under test; receiving an output of said one or more equipment under test into said testing system, wherein the testing system performs a real-time exchange of one of time-critical and state-critical messages and data representing real-time inputs and outputs to and from said one or more equipment under test for a protocol related to said use of said one or more equipment under test as if the one or more equipment under test is on-line in its normal installation, wherein said real-time inputs and outputs are selected from the group consisting of digital signals, analog signals, electromagnetic waves, sound waves, light waves, mechanical responses, chemical compositions, radiation waves, and biological entities; providing an expert system operably connected to said testing system; comparing, in said expert system, said real-time outputs with an expected result for said protocol at each one of said time-sensitive and state sensitive real-time inputs and real-time outputs; and determining, in said testing system, if said real-time outputs complies with said expected result.