Method and System for Monitoring and Simultaneously Displaying a Plurality of Signal Channels in a Communication System

• US 20090070822A1
• 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 8,973,058 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/63
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 17/004 for digital television systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/21 Server components or server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44209 Monitoring of downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. bandwidth variations of a wireless network arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6143 involving transmission via a satellite
• 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 includes a ground segment and a monitoring system displaying first thread view for a first channel and displaying a second thread view for a second channel.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

for a first channel, displaying first thread view at a monitoring system; and

for a second channel, displaying a second thread view at the monitoring system.

2. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein displaying the first thread view and displaying the second thread view are performed simultaneously.

3. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising for a third channel, displaying a third thread view at the monitoring system.

4. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein displaying the first thread view, displaying the second thread view and displaying the third thread view are performed simultaneously.

5. A method as recited in claim 4 wherein the third thread view comprises an online receiver decoder view and on offline receiver decoder view.

6. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the second thread view comprises an online receiver decoder view and on offline receiver decoder view.

7. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the first thread view comprises an online receiver decoder view and an on offline receiver decoder view.

8. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the second thread view comprises an online receiver decoder view, on offline receiver decoder view and an IRD view.

9. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the first thread view comprises an online receiver decoder view, an offline receiver decoder view and an IRD view.

10. A method comprising:

generating a first receiver decoder circuit signal at a first receiver decoder circuit for a first channel;

generating a second receiver decoder circuit signal at a second receiver decoder circuit for the first channel;

generating a third receiver decoder circuit signal at a third receiver decoder circuit for a second channel;

generating a fourth receiver decoder circuit signal at a fourth receiver decoder circuit for the second channel; and

generating a monitoring display formed in response to the first receiver decoder circuit signal, the second receiver decoder circuit signal, the third receiver decoder circuit signal and the fourth receiver decoder circuit signal.

11. A method as recited in claim 10 further comprising generating a first on-line view on the monitoring display in response to the first receiver decoder circuit signal and generating a second offline view from the second receiver decoder circuit signal and further comprising generating a second on-line view on the monitoring display in response to the third receiver decoder circuit signal and generating a second offline view from the fourth receiver decoder circuit signal.

12. A method as recited in claim 10 further comprising displaying the first receiver decoder circuit signal, the second decoder circuit signal, the third decoder circuit signal and the fourth decoder circuit signal simultaneously on the monitoring display.

13. A method as recited in claim 10 further comprising generating a first IRD signal for the first channel at an integrated receiver decoder, displaying the first IRD signal at the monitoring display, generating a second IRD signal for the second channel at an integrated receiver decoder and displaying the second IRD signal at the monitoring display.

14. A method as recited in claim 10 further comprising displaying the first receiver decoder circuit signal, the second receiver decoder circuit signal and the first IRD signal, the third receiver decoder circuit signal, the fourth receiver decoder circuit signal and the second IRD signal simultaneously.

15. A method as recited in claim 10 further comprising generating an output signal corresponding to at least one of an occasional router, a service access processing system router, a primary service access processing system router and a secondary service access processing system router, and displaying the output signal at the monitoring display simultaneously with the first receiver decoder circuit signal, the second receiver decoder circuit signal, the third receiver decoder circuit signal and the fourth receiver decoder circuit signal and the IRD signal.

16. A method as recited in claim 15 further comprising routing the first receiver decoder circuit signal, the second receiver decoder circuit signal, the third receiver decoder circuit signal and the fourth receiver decoder circuit signal and the output signal to the monitoring display.

17. A system comprising:

a ground segment;

a monitoring system displaying first thread view for a first channel and displaying a second thread view for a second channel.

18. A system as recited in claim 17 wherein the monitoring system displays the first thread view and the second thread view simultaneously.

19. A system as recited in claim 17 wherein the monitoring system displaying a third thread view for a third channel.

20. A system as recited in claim 19 wherein the monitoring system displays the first thread view, the second thread view and the third thread view simultaneously.

21. A system as recited in claim 17 wherein the third thread view comprises an online receiver decoder view and on offline receiver decoder view.

22. A system as recited in claim 17 wherein the second thread view comprises an online receiver decoder view and on offline receiver decoder view.

23. A system as recited in claim 17 wherein the second thread view comprises an online receiver decoder view, on offline receiver decoder view and an IRD view.

24. A system as recited in claim 17 wherein the first thread view comprises an online receiver decoder view, an offline receiver decoder view and an IRD view.