Patent ID: 7711530

Claim:
A method of generating a model of a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) system, the DSL system model comprising a set of one or more model parameter values for one or more model parameters, the method comprising: iteratively prompting at least one line of the DSL system to generate a plurality of prompted operational data sets, each prompted operational data set showing operating performance of the at least one line based on one of a plurality of different data conditions, wherein each prompting of the at least one line to generate prompted operational data comprises: sending an operating mode instruction signal to set an operational mode of a DSL transceiver; and operating the DSL transceiver using the set operational mode to transmit data over the at least one line and generate a prompted operational data set for a particular data condition; collecting the prompted operational data sets; generating one or more model parameter values based on the collected prompted operational data; and recording or storing one or more of the generated model parameter values in a memory.