Patent ID: 8005133
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. In a communications system, a method for displaying information describing a signal transmitted in the communication system, the method comprising the following: receiving the signals with a tapping device; transmitting the signal to a transceiver, the transceiver including a monitoring interface for performing digital diagnostic analysis of the signal, including real time access to access describing signal parameters; sampling the signal at a percentage of the harmonic frequency of the signal, the harmonic frequency of the signal being equal to the bit-rate divided by an integer; identifying a target as a midpoint between a maximum signal sample and the minimum signal sample; constructing an eye-diagram using the target as a reference point by identifying a point where multiple waveform crossings are displayed simultaneously in an overlaid time base; and displaying the digital diagnostic data received from the monitoring interface of the transceiver together with the eye-diagram for the signal.