Method and system for monitoring and simultaneously displaying a plurality of signal channels in a communication system

• US 8,973,058 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2007
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Kumar, Pankaj
• Assistant Examiner(s): ANDRAMUNO, FRANKLIN S
• Application Number:
  US11/853,749
• Publication Number:
  US 20090070822A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,730 Days
• Field of Search: 725/63, 725/131, 725/139
• US Class Current: 725/63
• 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 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.

2. A method as recited in claim 1 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.

3. A method as recited in claim 2 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.

4. A method as recited in claim 2 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.

5. A method as recited in claim 4 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.

6. A system comprising:

a ground segment; and

a monitoring system of a broadcasting system simultaneously displaying at a monitoring display of the monitoring system a first on-line view of a first television channel from a first receiver decoder circuit and a first offline view of the first television channel from a second receiver decoder circuit; and

wherein said monitoring system simultaneously displays at the monitoring display a second on-line view of a second television channel from a third receiver decoder circuit and a second offline view of the second television channel from a fourth receiver decoder circuit.

7. A system as recited in claim 6 wherein the monitoring system displays a first thread view and a second thread view simultaneously.

8. A system as recited in claim 7 wherein the monitoring system displaying a third thread view for a third channel.

9. A system as recited in claim 8 wherein the monitoring system displays the first thread view, the second thread view and the third thread view simultaneously.

10. A system as recited in claim 7 wherein the second thread view comprises an IRD view.

11. A system as recited in claim 7 wherein the first thread view comprises an IRD view.