Patent ID: 7313490

Claim:
A system for wavelet analysis of one or more time domain reflectometry (TDR) signals to determine one or more characteristics of one or more anomalies in a wire, the system comprising: a library of one or more reference wavelet analysis results that each correspond to one or more known anomalies having one or more known characteristics; and an analysis module operable to: receive a TDR signal that has reflected back up a wire from an anomaly in the wire; calculate a wavelet analysis result from a wavelet analysis of the TDR signal; access the library; compare the wavelet analysis result with one or more reference wavelet analysis results; and responsive to the wavelet analysis result corresponding to one or more particular reference wavelet analysis results, indicate that the anomaly in the wire has one or more particular known characteristics of one or more particular known anomalies corresponding to the one or more particular reference wavelet analysis results.