Method and system for determining the dependence between device parameters of a mobile telephone and signal parameters

• US 7,949,334 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2007
• Issued: 05/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Lorenzen, Rolf
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Tuan A
• Application Number:
  US12/095,874
• Publication Number:
  US 20090131039A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,414 Days
• Field of Search: 455418-420, 455423-425, 455 6711- 6715, 455/67.7, 455 68- 69, 4551151-1154, 4552261-2264
• US Class Current: 455/425
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/06 Testing, supervising or monitoring using simulated traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A method and a system for determining the dependence between several device-parameter values in each case of at least one device parameter of a mobile telephone (3₁, 3₂, . . . , 3_m, 3_n) and at least one signal parameter of a signal transmitted and/or received by the mobile telephone (3₁, 3₂, . . . , 3_m, 3_n) adjusts several device-parameter values within a mobile telephone (3₁, 3₂, . . . , 3_m, 3_n) of at least one device parameter of the respective mobile telephone (3₁, 3₂, . . . , 3_m, 3_n) for a given number of frequencies of the respectively transmitted and/or received signal, and measures the associated signal parameters of a signal transmitted and/or received by the respective mobile telephone (3₁, 3₂, . . . , 3_m, 3_n). All of the frequencies and the device-parameter values of at least one device parameter respectively associated with every frequency are present in the respective mobile telephone (3₁, 3₂, . . . , 3_m, 3_n) at the start of the measurements.

Claims

1. Method for determining the respective dependence between several device-parameter values of at least one device parameter of a mobile telephone and at least one signal parameter of a signal transmitted and/or received by the mobile telephone comprising setting, respectively in at least one mobile telephone several device-parameter values of at least one device parameter of the respective mobile telephone for a given number of frequencies of the transmitted and/or received signal and by measuring the associated signal parameters of a signal transmitted and/or received by the respective mobile telephone, wherein all of the frequencies and the respective device-parameter values of at least one device parameter associated with each frequency are present in the respective mobile telephone at the start of the measurements.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein, in each case, the measurements of all of the signal-parameter values of the signal transmitted and received by the respective mobile telephone, which are associated respectively with one frequency and one device-parameter value of a device parameter, follow one another in direct succession.

3. Method according to claim 2, wherein, in each case, the measurements of all the signal-parameter values of the signal transmitted and/or received by the respective mobile telephone, which are associated respectively with an identical frequency and a different device-parameter value of the device parameter, follow one another in direct succession.

4. Method according to claim 3, comprising, in each case, implementing the measurements of all signal-parameter values of the signal transmitted by the respective mobile telephone, which are associated respectively with an identical frequency and a different device-parameter value of a device parameter, before or after measuring all of the signal-parameter values of the signal received by the respective mobile telephone which are associated respectively with an identical frequency and a different device-parameter value of a device parameter.

5. Method according to claim 3, comprising, for every specified and mutually-associated frequency of the transmitted and received signal and every device-parameter value of every device parameter, implementing the measurement of the associated signal-parameter value of the transmitted signal simultaneously with measuring the associated signal-parameter value of the received signal.

6. Method according to claim 3, comprising, for every specified and mutually-associated frequency of the transmitted and received signal and every device-parameter value of every device parameter, implementing the measurement of the associated signal-parameter value of the transmitted signal directly before or after measuring the associated signal-parameter value of the received signal.

7. Method according to claim 3, comprising, for the measurement of all of the signal-parameter values of the signal transmitted and/or received by the respective mobile telephone which are associated respectively with an identical frequency, incrementing or decrementing the device-parameter values of the individual device parameters respectively.

8. Method according to claim 1, comprising implementing all of the measurements of the signal parameters of the transmitted and/or received signal, which are associated respectively with every device-parameter value of every device parameter and respectively with one frequency of the transmitted and/or received signal, before all of the measurements of the signal parameters of the transmitted and/or received signal, which are associated respectively with every device-parameter value of every device parameter and respectively with one further frequency of the transmitted and/or received signal.

9. Method according to claim 1, comprising implementing all of the measurements of the signal parameters of the transmitted and/or received signal, which are associated respectively with every device-parameter value of a device parameter and with every specified frequency of the transmitted and/or received signal, before all of the measurements of the signal parameters of the transmitted and/or received signal, which are associated respectively with every device-parameter value of a further device parameter and with every specified frequency of the transmitted and/or received signal.

10. Method according to claim 1, comprising providing a timeslot with a given duration for every measurement of a signal-parameter value of the signal transmitted and/or received, which is generated by the respective mobile telephone.

11. Method according to claim 10, wherein the timeslots for the measurements of the signal-parameter values associated respectively with a specified frequency of the transmitted and/or received signal are directly adjacent to one another within a timeframe.

12. Method according to claim 10, wherein the timeslots for the measurements of the signal-parameter values associated respectively with a specified frequency of the transmitted and/or received signal are arranged within a timeframe separated from one another in time in each case by a given number of time slots, in which no measurement is implemented.

13. Method according to claim 1, comprising, in each case, inserting a time slot, in which no measurement is implemented, in the transition between two specified frequencies of the transmitted and/or received signal.

14. Method according to claim 1, comprising, in the case of frequencies already stored in the respective mobile telephone and device-parameter values of the individual device parameters associated with the respective frequencies, initiating the measurement of the signal-parameter values of the individual signal parameters, which are associated with the individual device-parameter values of the individual device parameters, externally by a triggering of the respective mobile telephone.

15. Method according to claim 1, comprising initiating the measurement of the signal-parameter values of the individual signal parameters associated with the individual device-parameter values of the individual device parameters after storing in the respective mobile telephone the frequencies and the device-parameter values of the individual device parameters associated respectively with the frequencies.

16. Method according to claim 1, comprising, before implementing the individual measurements, synchronizing the respective mobile telephone with a measuring instrument and/or a superordinate procedural-control unit.

17. System for determining the dependence between several device-parameter values in each case of at least one device parameter in at least one mobile telephone and at least one signal parameter of a signal transmitted and/or received by the respective mobile telephone with a measuring instrument and at least one mobile telephone, which generates a transmitted and/or received signal respectively for a given number of specified frequencies and for a given number of device-parameter values of device parameters set in the respective mobile telephone wherein all of the frequencies and the device-parameter values of at least one device parameter respectively associated with each frequency are present in every mobile telephone at the start of the measurements.

18. System according to claim 17, wherein at the start of the measurements, all of the frequencies of the transmitted signal and all of the device-parameter values of every device parameter are supplied to every mobile telephone and all of the frequencies of the received signal are supplied to the measuring instrument from a superordinate procedural-control unit.

19. System according to claim 17 wherein the transmission of the signal transmitted to the measuring instrument from at least one mobile telephone and received respectively is implemented in each case via a line connection.

20. System according to claim 17 wherein the transmission to the measuring instrument of the signal transmitted from a mobile telephone and received is implemented via two line connections.