Patent ID: 7459898

Claim:
An apparatus for detecting, receiving and displaying wireless network information, comprising: a housing; a circuit board disposed within said housing, said circuit board further comprising: a radio, said radio consisting of a 2.4 GHz direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) radio system on a chip; a processing device and memory, said processing device comprising a highly integrated chip, said processing device further comprising a CPU, RAM, ROM, at least one I/O port and at least one timer; a wireless network detector; and a connector suitable for connecting with a port of a computing device, said connector consisting of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector interfacing with a USB port of a computing device; wherein said circuit board is a small form factor circuit board, said radio detects a frequency spectrum, said wireless network detector detects wireless network information, including at least one of signal strength, security type, or wireless network name, and said processing device transfers detected frequency spectrum data and said wireless network information to said computing device via said connector and interfaces with a display displaying a manipulatable graphical user interface for analyzing said detected frequency spectrum data and said wireless network information received from said processing device through said connector.