Diagnostic Device Having Wireless Communication Capabilities

• US 20070087741A1
• Filed: 09/29/2006
• Published: 04/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Finisar Corporation (II-VI Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Finisar Corporation (II-VI Incorporated)
• Inventors: Rose, Scott, Jones, Derek, Jacobsen, Paul, Noble, Gayle, Teeple, William, Haber, Sara, Ludwig, Ulysses, Hudson, Jonathan, Guillaudeu, Scott, Schondelmayer, Adam
• Application Number:
  US11/537,602
• Publication Number:
  US 20070087741A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/423
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/0085 using test signal generators
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/022 Site diversity; Macro-diversity using two or more spaced independent antennas H04B7/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/18 for wireless local area networks or WLAN
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/36 including means for exchanging jamming data between transmitter and receiver, e.g. in forward or backward direction
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/45 characterized by including monitoring of the target or target signal, e.g. in reactive jammers or follower jammers for example by means of an alternation of jamming phases and monitoring phases, called "look-through mode"
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/46 characterized in that the jamming signal is produced by retransmitting a received signal, after delay or processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/94 related to allowing or preventing testing or assessing

Abstract

This disclosure relates to a wireless diagnostic device, such as a network probe or a blade, with wireless communication capabilities. In one example embodiment, a network probe includes a processor, a memory in communication with the processor, a buffer in communication with the processor, and a first wireless transceiver in communication with the processor. In this example embodiment, the first wireless transceiver is configured to transmit data over a wireless channel.

Claims

1. A network probe comprising:

a processor;

a memory in communication with the processor;

a buffer in communication with the processor; and

a first wireless transceiver in communication with the processor, the first wireless transceiver being configured to transmit data over a wireless channel.

2. The network probe as recited in claim 1, wherein the first wireless transceiver is configured to receive data over a wireless channel.

3. The network probe as recited in claim 2, wherein the first wireless transceiver is configured to transmit diagnostic data.

4. The network probe as recited in claim 2, wherein the first wireless transceiver is configured to receive transactions at the Initiator/Target/LUN level.

5. The network probe as recited in claim 4, wherein the first wireless transceiver is configured to transmit diagnostic data associated with the transactions.

6. The network probe as recited in claim 2, wherein the first wireless transceiver is configured to retransmit data received by the first wireless transceiver.

7. The network probe as recited in claim 2, further comprising a second wireless transceiver in communication with the processor, the second wireless transceiver configured to receive data over a wireless channel, and the second wireless transceiver configured to transmit data over a wireless channel.

8. The network probe as recited in claim 2, wherein the first wireless transceiver is configured to receive control signals over a wireless channel.

9. The network probe as recited in claim 8, wherein the control signals are configured to cause a portion of the data received by the first wireless transceiver to be stored in the buffer for subsequent transmission by the first wireless transceiver to an aggregation server.

10. The network probe as recited in claim 1, further comprising a housing including two or more slots, each slot configured to accept a blade having a second wireless transceiver, the second wireless transceiver configured to transmit data over a wireless channel.

11. A blade comprising:

a processor;

a memory in communication with the processor;

a buffer in communication with the processor; and

a first wireless transceiver configured to transmit data over a wireless channel,

wherein the blade is configured to be pluggably received within a receptacle of the housing of a host device.

12. The blade as recited in claim 11, wherein the first wireless transceiver is configured to receive data over a wireless channel, the data corresponding with a predetermined protocol.

13. The blade as recited in claim 12, wherein the predetermined protocol is at least one of LAN, SAN, or CYBER.

14. The blade as recited in claim 12, further comprising a diagnostic software module stored in the memory, the diagnostic software module configured to generate diagnostic data associated with the data corresponding with the predetermined protocol.

15. The blade as recited in claim 12, wherein the first wireless transceiver is configured to transmit diagnostic data associated with the data received by the first wireless transceiver.

16. The blade as recited in claim 12, wherein the first wireless transceiver is configured to retransmit data received by the first wireless transceiver.

17. The blade as recited in claim 12, wherein the first wireless transceiver is configured to receive control signals over a wireless channel.

18. The blade as recited in claim 17, wherein the control signals are configured to cause a portion of the data received by the first wireless transceiver to be stored in the buffer for eventual transmission by the first wireless transceiver to an aggregation server.