Apparatus for assessing communication equipment

• Main Authors: BARRETT MARK A, SKINGSLEY DAVID
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.02.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVEREDIN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; MEASURING; MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PHYSICS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; TESTING; TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES ORSTRUCTURES; TESTING STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

The transmission of data packets by communications equipment is tested and/or monitored. One or more transmission protocols is registered to enable communication according to any registered protocol. A request specifying at least one testing and/or monitoring operation is submitted. A received request is decoded into one or more processable events in accordance with one or more predetermined rules. The writing of data packets to, and the reading of data packets from, communications equipment is controlled. Decoding of received requests and execution of one or more processable events in accordance with the read/write control is scheduled. The above is arranged such that, when a request is received, the following is scheduled:a) decoding the request into one or more processable events;b) initialization of the processable events; andc) reading and writing data packets from and to communications equipment in accordance with the processable events.