Patent ID: 8619850

Claim:
A method for monitoring a television broadcast signal, comprising: identifying a plurality of monitoring points along a transmission path for the television signal, wherein each monitoring point corresponds to a point along the transmission path and is selected for at least one of technical and economic reasons, wherein the monitoring points include a monitoring point associated with a revenue function, and wherein the revenue function is responsive to a change in state of the associated monitoring point; providing a plurality of video images corresponding to the monitoring points, each of the video images corresponding to a video signal at each of the monitoring points, wherein the video signal and corresponding video images are acquired and provided in real time; providing a graphical representation of the transmission path including a plurality of functional blocks for generating the television signal; providing an integrated real-time output on a display device; and in response to detecting an error, automatically switching between devices or automatically reconfiguring the transmission path to correct the error, wherein the output provides a single display showing the video images and the graphical representation of the transmission path, wherein each video image is associated with a point along the graphical representation of the transmission path, and wherein at least two of the video images correspond to an input and an output of one of the functional blocks in the graphical representation of the transmission path.