Patent Document ID: 20050021256
Application ID: 10749416
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. 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; if the wavelet analysis result corresponds 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; and if the wavelet analysis result of the TDR signal does not correspond to one or more reference wavelet analysis results, indicate that the anomaly in the wire lacks one or more known characteristics of one or more known anomalies corresponding to one or more reference wavelet analysis results in the library.