Patent Document ID: 8660811
Application ID: 13014239
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for processing a waveform by a general purpose computer running a computer program stored to a non-transitory computer readable storage medium associate therewith, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring samples by the computer of an unknown signal for a plurality of unit intervals of the unknown signal; determining an unknown distribution of time interval errors of the acquired samples of the unknown signal; determining the corresponding SEDF (Symmetrized Empirical Distribution Function) and BER (Bit Error Rate) values for the distribution of time interval errors; applying a normalized Q-scale algorithm to the BER values, wherein the applying comprises: selecting one or more contiguous subsets of the BER values from the extremes of a SCDF (Symmetrized Cumulative Distribution Function); numerically determining the at least one normalization coefficient to provide a most linear fit of the selected normalized Q-scale points evaluated for the selected subsets of BER values; and storing the at least one normalization coefficient to a non-transitory computer readable recording medium.