Patent ID: 8116208

Claim:
A method of testing a plurality of data signal transmitters with a data signal analyzer, comprising: receiving a plurality N of packet data signals simultaneously from a corresponding plurality N of data signal transmitters, wherein each one of said plurality N of packet data signals has a respective plurality of sequential signal intervals, each one of said plurality of sequential signal intervals has a signal interval duration I, and each one of said plurality N of packet data signals has a respective packet data signal characteristic during each one of said respective plurality of sequential signal intervals; capturing a respective portion of said respective plurality of sequential signal intervals from each one of said plurality N of packet data signals to provide a plurality N of captured portions of said respective plurality of sequential signal intervals, wherein each one of said plurality N of captured portions of said respective plurality of sequential signal intervals has a captured signal duration C; and processing each one of said plurality N of captured portions of said plurality of sequential signal intervals in accordance with a signal test having a test duration T associated therewith; wherein said captured signal duration C is greater than or equal to said test duration T when said test duration T is greater than a portion I/N of said signal interval duration I, and less than or equal to said portion I/N of said signal interval duration I when said test duration T is less than or equal to said portion I/N of said signal interval duration I.