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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Titus Lo, Redmond, WA (US);
Dennis Rosenauer, Redmond, WA (US);
Douglas Frank Stolarz, Monmouth Beach, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01G 3/22 ; H01Q 3/22 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01G 3/22 ; H01Q 3/22 ;
Abstract
A method provides a technique for optimally combining communication beams. The method forms a plurality of beams from captured signals. One beam is selected as the primary beam while a subset of the others are applied to auxiliary receivers. A digital signal processor weights and combines these primary and secondary beams.