System and Method for Determining End-to-End Speech Quality of Mobile Telephone Devices

• US 20090111459A1
• Filed: 10/30/2007
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Spirent Communications Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Spirent Communications Incorporated
• Inventors: Topaltzas, Dimitrios M., Horner, Jeffrey P.
• Application Number:
  US11/928,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20090111459A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/423
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/06 Testing, supervising or monitoring using simulated traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A system and method for determining the speech quality of a mobile telephone device is provided. In one embodiment the method comprises providing test speech to the telephone device configured to transmit signals representing the first test speech through a mobile telephone network by a first computer; receiving, at a second computer, signals representative of the first test speech via a communication path that includes the mobile telephone network; determining the speech quality for the received signals representing the first test speech; storing data of the first speech quality in memory; and receiving the data of the first speech quality at the first computer. In addition, the method may include retrieving a second test speech from a memory of the second computer; transmitting the second test speech through the mobile telephone network for reception by the mobile telephone device; and determining a speech quality for the second test speech received by the mobile telephone device by the first computer.

Claims

1. A method of determining the speech quality of a mobile telephone device configured to communicate via a mobile telephone network, comprising:

retrieving first test speech from memory of a first computer;

providing the first test speech to the mobile telephone device configured to transmit signals representing the first test speech through the mobile telephone network;

receiving, at a second computer, the signals representing the first test speech via a communication path that includes the mobile telephone network;

determining a first speech quality for the received signals representing the first test speech;

storing data of the first speech quality in a memory;

transmitting data of the first speech quality to the first computer; and

receiving the data of the first speech quality at the first computer.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving a second test speech from a memory;

transmitting the second test speech through the mobile telephone network for reception by the mobile telephone device; and

determining a second speech quality for the second test speech received by the mobile telephone device.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said determining a second speech quality for the second test speech is performed by the first computer.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said storing data of the first speech quality comprises storing information of the first speech quality in association with a telephone number of the mobile telephone device.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said storing comprises storing information of the location of the mobile telephone device.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said providing comprises audibly producing.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said receiving the data comprises receiving the data of the first speech quality in substantially real time.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said transmitting the data of the first speech quality is performed in response to a request from the first computer.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing in a memory a plurality of files comprising data of speech quality for different mobile telephone devices; and

identifying one of the plurality of files of data of speech quality for said transmitting by determining correspondence of a telephone number associated with the one file with a telephone number of the mobile telephone device.

10. A method of determining a communication quality of a mobile telephone device configured to communicate via a mobile telephone network, comprising:

transmitting signals representing first test information from the mobile telephone device through the mobile telephone network;

receiving signals representative of the first test information via the mobile telephone network;

determining a communication quality for the received signals;

storing data of the determined communication quality; and

transmitting the data of the determined communication quality to a computer co-located with the mobile telephone device in substantially real time.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

transmitting signals representing second test information through the mobile telephone network to the mobile telephone device;

receiving, at the mobile telephone device, signals representative of the second test information via the mobile telephone network; and

determining a communication quality for the received signals representative of the second test information.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the communication quality comprise at least one of throughput, connectivity, and error rate.

13. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

storing in a memory a plurality of files comprising data of a determined communication quality for different mobile telephone devices; and

identifying one of the plurality of files for transmitting by determining correspondence of a telephone number associated with the one file with a telephone number of the mobile telephone device.

14. A method of determining the speech quality of a mobile telephone device configured to communicate via a mobile telephone network, comprising:

retrieving first test speech from a memory;

transmitting signals representing the first test speech through the mobile telephone network to the mobile telephone device;

receiving signals, at the mobile telephone device, representative of the first test speech via a communication path that includes the mobile telephone network; and

determining a speech quality for the received signals.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising:

performing a second test that includes transmitting second test speech via the mobile telephone network from the mobile telephone device; and

receiving test results of the second test at a device co-located with the mobile telephone device.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein said receiving tests results comprises receiving the rest results in substantially real time.

17. A method of determining a communication quality provided by a mobile telephone device configured to communicate via a mobile telephone network, comprising:

transmitting signals representing first test information from the mobile telephone device through a mobile telephone network;

receiving signals representative of the first test information via the mobile telephone network at a first computer;

determining a communication quality for the received signals representative of the first test information;

transmitting the data of the determined communication quality of the received signals representative of the first test information to a second computer co-located with the mobile telephone device;

transmitting signals representing second test information through the mobile telephone network to the mobile telephone device;

receiving signals representative of the second test information via the mobile telephone network at the mobile telephone device; and

determining a communication quality for the received signals representative of the second test information.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the communication quality determined for the received signals representative of the first test information and the second test information comprises at least one of throughput, connectivity, and error rate.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the communication quality determined for the received signals representative of the first test information and the second test information comprises speech quality.

20. The method according to claim 17, further comprising:

storing in a memory a plurality of files comprising data of a determined communication quality for different mobile telephone devices; and

identifying, for transmission to the second computer, one of the plurality of files by determining a correspondence of a telephone number associated with the one file with a telephone number of the mobile telephone device.

21. A method of providing end-to-end communication quality data for a mobile telephone device, comprising:

performing a first communication test to determine the quality of communication from the mobile telephone device to a remote land line device;

storing first test results data, comprising data of the results of the first communication test, on a first computer;

performing a second communication test to determine the quality of communication from the remote land line device to the mobile telephone device;

storing second test results data, comprising data of the results of the second communication test, on a second computer co-located with the mobile telephone device; and

transmitting the first test results data from the first computer to the second computer.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein said transmitting the first test results data comprises transmitting the first test results data in substantially real-time.

23. The method according to claim 21, wherein said performing a first communication test and said performing a second communication test are performed concurrently.

24. The method according to claim 21, wherein the quality of communication tested by the first communication test and the second communication test comprises speech quality.

25. The method according to claim 21, further comprising:

storing in a memory of the first computer a plurality of files comprising data of a determined communication quality for different mobile telephone devices; and

identifying one of the plurality of files, for transmission to the second computer, by determining a correspondence of a telephone number associated with the one file with a telephone number of the mobile telephone device.