Patent ID: 7668230

Claim:
A first device for communicating over a digital-subscriber-line (DSL) link, comprising: a digital-subscriber-line transceiver to transmit and receive data over the DSL link, wherein a set of one or more performance parameters are associated with the DSL link by which the quality of the DSL link can be determined; and a controller coupled to the digital-subscriber-line transceiver, wherein the controller causes a non-intrusive transmitter adjustment operation to be performed by the digital-subscriber-line transceiver while DSL service is being provided over the DSL link, wherein the non-intrusive transmitter adjustment is non-intrusive with respect to the DSL link; wherein the first device communicates with a second device over the DSL link, wherein the controller causes the non-intrusive transmitter adjustment operation to be performed by the digital-subscriber-line transceiver in response to a request transmitted from a third device; and wherein the third device comprises a management client executing a management application, wherein a management server running on the first device is responsive to the management client.