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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2015
U-blox Ag, Thalwil, CH;
John Haine, Cambridge, GB;
Peter Mutitika Kibutu, Cambridge, GB;
u-blox AG, Thalwil, CH;
Abstract
A transceiver apparatus () is configured to support antenna selection in accordance with a communications standard. The apparatus comprises a hardware subsystem () comprising a duplexing component (), a transmitter chain, a first receiver chain () and a second receiver chain () respectively comprising a first antenna port () and a second antenna port () at an upstream end thereof. The first receiver chain () and the transmitter chain sharing the duplexing component (). The apparatus further comprises a signal redirection system () arranged to couple temporarily the second antenna port () to the first receiver chain () at a point of entry thereof and in response to an antenna selection instruction, thereby redirecting temporarily a signal path from the second antenna port () into the first receiver chain () and then back into the second receiver chain () downstream of the point of entry.