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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stefan Oestreich, Holzkirchen, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/06 ; H04B 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/06 ; H04B 7/00 ;
Abstract
A radio diversity method in which a first received signal is received by a first antenna and a second received signal is received by a second antenna. The first received signal and the second received signal are converted from an analog format to a digital format. Digital signal values are in each case detected, with quality levels being defined in each case for the digital signal values. An evaluation device evaluates the quality levels and, depending on the evaluation result, passes on only portions of the digital signal values for subsequent combination. This reduces the data rate that needs to be transmitted, for example, during a soft hand over.