METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20090070821A1
• Filed: 09/11/2007
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DIRECTV, LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Barroso, Eduardo
• Granted Patent: US 9,473,751 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/63
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2221 being a cable television head-end CATV in broadcast systems H04H20/78
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/20 Adaptations for transmission via a GHz frequency band, e.g. via satellite

Abstract

A system and method of monitoring a signals include an occasional router generating a first output signal, a first service access processing system generating a second output signal and a second service access processing system generating a third output signal. A secondary service access processing system router receives the first output signal, the second output signal and the third output signal. A monitoring system selects at least one of the first output signal, the second output signal and the third output signal for monitoring and generates a video output signal. A monitoring display displays the output signal on a first display.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

selecting a transfer switch on line signal or offline signal to form a source signal;

identify the service access router input corresponding to the source signal;

identify service access router output that feeds the monitor router;

routing the source signal from the input to the service access router output;

communicating the source signal from the service access router to the monitor router; and

displaying the source signal on a first display associated with a monitoring console.

2. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the source signal corresponds to an online transfer switch signal.

3. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the source signal corresponds to an offline transfer switch signal.

4. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising selecting an integrated receiver decoder generating an IRD signal corresponding to the source signal.

5. A method as recited in claim 4 further comprising displaying the IRD signal on a second display.

6. A method as recited in claim 5 wherein the second display is adjacent to the first display.

7. A method as recited in claim 4 wherein the IRD signal comprises a satellite downlink signal.

8. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising wherein the on line signal or the offline signal comprises a video signal.

9. A method as recited in claim 8 further comprising routing an audio signal to an audio scope.

10. A method as recited in claim 9 further comprising monitoring the audio signal through the audio scope.

11. A system comprising:

an occasional router generating a first output signal;

a first service access processing system generating a second output signal;

a second service access processing system generating a third output signal;

a secondary service access processing system router receiving the first output signal, the second out put signal and the third output signal,

a monitoring system for selecting at least one of the first output signal, the second output signal and the third output signal for monitoring and generating a video output signal; and

a monitoring display displaying the video output signal on a first display.

12. A system as recited in claim 11 wherein the second output signal and the third output signal are generated at a transfer switch.

13. A system as recited in claim 11 wherein the second output signal corresponds to an online transfer switch signal.

14. A system as recited in claim 13 wherein the third output signal corresponds to an offline transfer switch signal.

15. A system as recited in claim 11 further comprising an integrated receiver decoder generating an IRD signal corresponding to the source signal.

16. A system as recited in claim 15 further comprising a second display displaying the IRD signal.

17. A system as recited in claim 16 wherein the second display is adjacent to the first display.

18. A system as recited in claim 15 wherein the IRD signal comprises a satellite downlink signal.

19. A system as recited in claim 11 further comprising wherein the first, second and third output signals comprise a video signal.

20. A system as recited in claim 19 further comprising a router an audio signal to an audio scope for monitoring.

21. A system as recited in claim 11 wherein the video output signal corresponds to a digital television signal.