WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TESTING INSTRUMENT AND NETWORK

• US 20100064078A1
• Filed: 08/10/2009
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Trilithic Incorporated (Lumentum Holdings Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Trilithic Incorporated (Lumentum Holdings Inc.)
• Inventors: Powell, Thomas J.
• Application Number:
  US12/538,391
• Publication Number:
  US 20100064078A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/69
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 17/00 Diagnosis, testing or measuring for television systems or their details

Abstract

An instrument for testing a CATV network includes a microcomputer for controlling the instrument, a memory coupled to the microcomputer, a keypad user interface coupled to the microcomputer, a digital signal processor (DSP) coupled to the microcomputer to be controlled thereby, an RF section, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter coupled to the RF section and to the DSP, and a wireless adapter coupled to the microcomputer to provide wireless communication between the instrument and an internetwork access point.

Claims

1. An instrument for testing a CATV network, the instrument including a microcomputer (μ

C) for controlling the instrument, a memory coupled to the μ

C, a keypad user interface coupled to the μ

C, a digital signal processor (DSP) coupled to the μ

C to be controlled thereby, an RF section, an analog-to-digital converter coupled

to the RF section and to the DSP, and a wireless adapter coupled to the μ

C to provide wireless communication between the instrument and a network access point.

2. The instrument of claim 1 wherein the wireless adapter comprises a WiFi adapter.

3. The instrument of claim 2 further comprising an ethernet interface coupled to the μ

C and a routing switch coupled to the ethernet interface.

4. The instrument of claim 1 wherein the wireless adapter comprises a mobile broadband adapter.

5. The instrument of claim 4 further comprising a universal serial bus (USB) port coupled to the μ

C, the mobile broadband adapter coupled to the USB port.

6. The instrument of claim 1 wherein the wireless adapter comprises a WiMAX adapter.

7. The instrument of claim 6 further comprising an ethernet interface coupled to the μ

C and to the WiMAX adapter.

8. The instrument of claim 1 wherein the wireless adapter comprises a Bluetooth adapter.

9. The instrument of claim 1 wherein the wireless adapter comprises a ZigBee®

adapter.

10. The instrument of claim 1 wherein the wireless adapter comprises a Lightweight Telephony Protocol (LTP) adapter.

11. The instrument of claim 1 wherein the wireless adapter comprises a Long Term Evolution (LTE) interface adapter.

12. The instrument of claim 1 wherein the wireless adapter comprises a custom RF interface adapter.