METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND SIMULTANEOUSLY DISPLAYING A PLURALITY OF SIGNAL CHANNELS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20150181177A1
• Filed: 02/10/2015
• Published: 06/25/2015
• 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 10,349,014 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 television channel, simultaneously displaying at a monitoring system of a television broadcasting system a first thread view comprising a plurality of first video signals each generated by a respective one of a first plurality of different broadcasting system components that are disposed along a first path that a television signal follows prior to being broadcasted to a plurality of user devices; and

for a second television channel, simultaneously displaying at the monitoring system a second thread view comprising a plurality of second signals generated by a second plurality of broadcasting system components used for communicating the second television channel along a second path within the broadcasting 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 3 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 of operating a monitoring system of a broadcasting system 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 at the monitoring system formed by simultaneously displaying the first receiver decoder circuit signal that corresponds to a first on-line view, the second receiver decoder circuit signal that corresponds to a first offline view, the third receiver decoder circuit signal that corresponds to a second on-line view and the fourth receiver decoder circuit signal that corresponds to a second offline view.

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 13 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 13 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 first 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; and

a monitoring system of a broadcasting system simultaneously displaying first thread view for a first television channel comprising first signals from a first plurality of broadcasting system components along a first path that a television signal follows prior to being broadcasted to a plurality of user devices, said broadcasting system broadcasting to the plurality of user devices; and

wherein said monitoring system simultaneously displays a second thread view for a second television channel comprising second signals from a second plurality of broadcasting system components along a second path within the broadcasting system.

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 19 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.