Patent ID: 7460967

Claim:
A method of displaying selected portions of interest within a waveform measured by a digital sampling oscilloscope, the method comprising the steps of: (a) measuring a signal's waveform with a digital sampling oscilloscope by sampling the signal's values and storing them as an Acquisition Record; (b) defining criteria by which an Automatic Measurement Subsystem can locate events of interest within the Acquisition Record; (c) subsequent to steps (a) and (b), traversing the Acquisition Record stored in step (a) to locate events therein that meet the criteria defined in step (b); (d) storing in an event location table the locations in the Acquisition Record where there are events located by the traverse of step (c); (e) subsequent to step (d), traversing the event location table of step (d) in response to activation of selected controls to do so; and (f) displaying upon a screen of the digital sampling oscilloscope a trace that represents the portion of the signal's waveform that corresponds to an entry in the event location table to which there has been a traverse in step (e).