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Automated telephone line test apparatus with intelligent diagnostic function

  • US 6,438,212 B1
  • Filed: 09/18/1997
  • Issued: 08/20/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automated telephone line test apparatus, comprising:

  • test circuit means for applying test signals to a telephone line to be tested, and for detecting electrical characteristics of said telephone line to be tested;

    a processor connected to said test circuit means for controlling said test circuit means;

    display means connected to said processor; and

    a program memory connected to said processor;

    said processor being programmed;

    to control said test circuit means such that said test circuit means performs a pre-programmed sequence of a plurality of different tests with respect to said telephone line to be tested, said pre-programmed sequence of a plurality of different tests being performed in accordance with a program stored in said program memory;

    to control said display means such that said display means provides at the start of said performance of said pre-programmed sequence of tests a display having a first field in which alphabetic information identifying each of said plurality of different tests is together listed and a second adjacent field in which the results of said tests are to be displayed and as testing proceeds to further control said display means to provide for each test;

    in said first field adjacent the listing of the corresponding test and during the performance of the test a display of an indication that the test is being performed; and

    in said second field a display of the numeric readings of the results of the test.

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