Patent ID: 8145447

Claim:
A communications test device, comprising: a processor located in a hand-held housing; a protocol analyzer located in the hand-held housing and configured to communicate with the processor, the protocol analyzer configured to monitor data passing over a communications network and to perform test operations on the data transmitted over the communications network, wherein the test operations comprise testing functionality of the communications network; a web browser module stored in memory of the hand-held housing and configured to be executed by the processor, the web browser module operative to initiate data communications between the web browser module and a source of information located external to the communications test device; a wireline modem and a wireless modem configured to communicate with the web browser module, wherein the wireline modem and the wireless modem utilize at least one of a frequency shift keying modulation scheme, a differential phase shift keying modulation scheme, a quadrature amplitude modulation scheme, and a trellis-coded modulation scheme to modulate and demodulate information transmitted to and received from the source of information located external to the communications test set; and the hand-held housing for enclosing the processor, the protocol analyzer, the web browser module, the wireline modem, and the wireless modem.