Method and apparatus for enabling FLO device certification

• US 20070230356A1
• Filed: 04/04/2006
• Published: 10/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Kalantri, Sacchindrakumar, Levi, Jake
• Application Number:
  US11/398,075
• Publication Number:
  US 20070230356A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/241
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/06 Testing, supervising or monitoring using simulated traffic

Abstract

Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate certifying Forward Link Only (FLO) mobile devices. According to various aspects, systems and/or methods are described that facilitate simulating a FLO network to enable device qualification, certification, testing, measuring, etc. Such systems and/or methods may employ a captured asynchronous serial interface (ASI) stream that may be utilized to recreate FLO network conditions existing at a time of data capture.

Claims

1. A method that facilitates simulating a Forward Link Only (FLO) network for enabling device certification, comprising:

capturing an asynchronous serial interface (ASI) stream generated for a FLO transmission; and

retaining the ASI stream for simulating the FLO transmission.

2. The method of claim 1, capturing the ASI stream prior to uplink transmission to a satellite.

3. The method of claim 1, capturing the ASI stream before conversion into a radio frequency FLO waveform.

4. The method of claim 1, retaining the ASI stream in memory.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising utilizing the ASI stream at a later time to simulate behavior of the FLO network.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising synchronizing a CDMA base station emulator based upon timing information from the ASI stream.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising synchronizing an exciter based upon timing information from the ASI stream.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising analyzing the ASI stream to identify timing information.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the ASI stream to an exciter for generating a FLO waveform.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising providing the FLO waveform to a FLO mobile device being tested.

11. The method of claim 1, receiving signaling information from a FLO mobile device via a CDMA network.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the CDMA network employs a 3G protocol.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the ASI stream enables simulating at least one of activation, digital rights management conditional access service, subscriptions, provisioning, signaling, overhead, programming guides, channel data, content ratings, and notifications.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein a notion of time for simulating the FLO transmission is fixed to a point in time that the ASI stream was generated.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the ASI stream includes one or more of a control stream, an overhead stream, a video stream, and an audio stream.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the ASI stream is played back through an exciter to recreate network conditions.

17. The method of claim 1, at least one of capturing and retaining the ASI stream in real time.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the ASI stream simulates at least one of a service layer and an application layer associated with the FLO transmission.

19. A wireless communications apparatus, comprising:

a memory that retains a captured asynchronous serial interface (ASI) stream; and

a processor that evaluates the ASI stream to identify time information, synchronizes at least one of a CDMA network and an exciter based upon the time information, and transmits the ASI stream to the exciter to simulate a Forward Link Only (FLO) network.

20. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 19, wherein the processor effectuates signaling via the CDMA network over IP.

21. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 19, wherein the processor utilizes configuration files associated with the ASI stream to simulate the FLO network.

22. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 19, wherein the processor at least one of starts and stops transmission of the ASI stream.

23. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 19, wherein the processor transmits the ASI stream relevant to a particular test.

24. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 19, wherein the processor simulates real conditions associated with a transmission channel.

25. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 19, wherein the processor intercepts and stores the ASI stream in the memory after multiplexing.

26. A wireless communications apparatus that simulates a Forward Link Only (FLO) network for utilization in connection with certifying FLO enabled devices, comprising:

means for generating an asynchronous serial interface (ASI) stream for a FLO transmission;

means for capturing the ASI stream;

means for retaining the ASI stream; and

means for simulating the FLO transmission utilizing the retained ASI stream.

27. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 26, further comprising means for generating a FLO waveform from the ASI stream.

28. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 26, further comprising means for communicating over a CDMA network.

29. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 26, further comprising means for synchronizing the FLO network with a CDMA network.

30. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 26, further comprising means for identifying a particular ASI stream from a set of retained ASI streams to transmit based upon a test of a device to be performed.

31. The wireless communications apparatus of claim 26, further comprising means for simulating at least one of a service layer and an application layer associated with the FLO network.

32. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-executable instructions for:

requesting initialization information from a CDMA network;

initializing a Forward Link Only (FLO) device being tested based upon the initialization information;

receiving a FLO waveform obtained from a time-shifted asynchronous serial interface (ASI) stream that simulates a FLO network; and

communicating via the CDMA network

33. The machine-readable medium of claim 32, the machine-executable instructions further comprise receiving the initialization information that includes at least one of an IP address, a DNS IP address, and a NetMask.

34. The machine-readable medium of claim 32, the machine-executable instructions further comprise receiving the FLO waveform from an exciter that employs settings similar to a disparate exciter associated with a system that generated the ASI stream.

35. The machine-readable medium of claim 32, the machine-executable instructions further comprise analyzing the received FLO waveform to test the FLO device.

36. The machine-readable medium of claim 32, the machine-executable instructions further comprise outputting the received FLO waveform with the FLO device.

37. The machine-readable medium of claim 32, wherein the FLO waveform simulates at least one of activation, digital rights management conditional access service, subscriptions, provisioning, signaling, overhead, programming guides, channel data, content ratings, and notifications.

38. The machine-readable medium of claim 32, wherein the ASI stream is stored in a compact form.

39. The machine-readable medium of claim 32, wherein the FLO network and the CDMA network employ corresponding times within a predetermined range.

40. A processor that executes the following instructions:

capturing an asynchronous serial interface (ASI) stream;

storing the ASI stream; and

transmitting the ASI stream to an exciter for generating a radio frequency signal that simulates a Forward Link Only (FLO) transmission for testing a FLO enabled device.