Patent ID: 8660817

Claim:
A hardware test and diagnosis system comprising: a diagnostic computer; and a cellular communication device comprising: a peripheral chipset on a circuit board, the peripheral chipset having a plurality of modes of operation and supporting at least one of the Bluetooth, GPS, FM radio and WLAN functionalities; and a cellular baseband controller on the circuit board, wherein the cellular baseband controller is configured to execute an agent software on the circuit board; wherein the agent software is configured to communicate with the diagnostic computer, the agent software further configured to communicate with the peripheral chipset, and provide a virtual communication channel between the diagnostic computer and the peripheral chipset via the cellular baseband controller, the diagnostic computer issuing commands passing through the cellular baseband controller and directed to the peripheral chipset using the virtual communication channel, wherein the commands configure the peripheral chipset in various modes of the plurality of modes of operation for testing the functionalities of the peripheral chipset in each mode of the plurality of modes of operation using the virtual communication channel by communicating messages between the diagnostic computer and the peripheral chipset.