Patent ID: 8363805

Claim:
A method for displaying information received or generated by a media terminal adapter on a display, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, at a tuner internal to the media terminal adapter, data from a cable modem termination system (CMTS) during initialization process for the media terminal adapter; filtering the received data to identify data intended for the media terminal adapter; providing the filtered data and a set of state machine information to a processor, wherein the state machine is internal to the media terminal adapter, and wherein the state machine information includes at least status of steps of an initialization process, the firmware load version, and the software load version of the media terminal adapter; converting the filtered data and the state machine information to a frequency shift keying (FSK) format to provide an FSK data signal; providing the FSK data signal to an interface; and displaying the FSK data signal on a display device in a readable format.