Mobile test set for a mobile-radio system

• US 5,410,753 A
• Filed: 02/19/1993
• Issued: 04/25/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alcatel NV (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel NV (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Szabo, Laszlo
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): VO, NGUYEN THANH
• Application Number:
  US08/019,697
• Time in Patent Office: 795 Days
• Field of Search: 455/67.1, 455/67.4, 455/67.5, 455/9, 455/33.1, 455/49.1, 455/53.1, 455/54.1, 455/69, 455/70, 455/88, 455/92, 455/151.2, 455/151.1, 455/67.3, 455/68, 455/45, 379/27, 379/63, 379/59
• US Class Current: 455/67.14
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/16 Test equipment located at the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements

Abstract

A mobile test set for testing a mobile-radio system containing system components to be tested and at least one operation and maintenance center. The mobile test set has a first interface for the exchange of test signals between the mobile test set and at least one of the system components and a second interface for the exchange of control signals between the mobile test set and at least one man-machine interface. The two interfaces are linked so that the exchange of the control signals takes place via at least one of the system components between the mobile test set and at least one man-machine interface installed in the operation and maintenance center.

Claims

1. A mobile test set for a mobile-radio system containing system components to be tested and at least one operation and maintenance center, the mobile test set comprising:

a first interface for the exchange of test signals between the mobile test set and at least one of the system components and a second interface for the exchange of control signals between the mobile test set and at least one man-machine interface installed in the operation and maintenance center, and

means for linking the first and second interfaces to provide for the exchange of the control signals through said at least one of the system components between the mobile test set and the at least one man-machine interface installed in the operation and maintenance center.

2. A mobile test set as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile-radio system includes standardized communications links and wherein the exchange of the control signals takes place through the standardized communications links of the mobile-radio system.

3. A mobile test set as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first and second interfaces together form a standard interface for the exchange of the test and control signals.

4. A mobile test set as claimed in claim 2, wherein the standardized communications links comprise:

a radio link between the mobile test set and said at least one of the system components of the mobile radio system, the radio link including at least a channel for the control signals and a channel for the test signals, and

at least one communications link between the system components of the mobile radio system, the at least one communications link having at least one control channel for the control signals,

wherein the mobile test set is controlled to test the mobile radio system by remote control over the standardized communications links.