Patent ID: 6845331

Claim:
A computer program product for permitting an oscilloscope to independently analyze a signal input into said oscilloscope, said oscilloscope including a plurality of triggering modes, said computer program product comprising: storage means; instruction means embodied within said storage means for specifying a plurality of trigger parameters for each of said plurality of triggering modes; and instruction means embodied within said storage means for thereafter, said oscilloscope automatically analyzing said input signal independently from any user input sequentially utilizing each of said plurality of triggering modes and said plurality of trigger parameters specified for each of said plurality of triggering modes; including: instruction means embodied within said means for determining if said oscilloscope triggered on one of a plurality of undesired waveforms; and instruction means embodied within said storage means responsive to a determination that said oscilloscope triggered on one of said plurality of undesired waveforms, for storing said one of said plurality of undesired waveforms.