Patent ID: 7779301

Claim:
A method for monitoring and testing a circuit installed in a circuit board, comprising: establishing a wireless communication link with a remote test or monitoring device to support testing or monitoring as commanded by the remote test or monitoring device; conducting ongoing signal data transmissions by transmitting data through a wired communication path from a first circuit block to a second circuit block; and wirelessly receiving, at a first transceiver operably disposed in the circuit board, one of a sample of the ongoing signal data transmissions being transmitted through the wired transmission or a signal reflecting a characteristic of the ongoing signal data transmissions transmitted by a second transceiver operably disposed in the circuit board; wirelessly transmitting to the remote test or monitoring device one of the sample of the ongoing signal data transmissions or the signal reflecting the characteristic of the ongoing signal data transmissions or test data from a specified test point transmitted wirelessly between the first and second transceivers.