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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2000
Ravinder David Koilpillai, Apex, NC (US);
David R. Irvin, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ericsson Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Abstract
A mobile communications device includes at least two receivers and a memory module. The power consumption of the mobile communications device is controlled by selectively awakening and sleeping the receivers as needed to ensure that the desired quality of reception to check the control channel for messages from an associated base station and to handle incoming communications is maintained. The mobile communications device may operate in single receiver mode or dual receiver diversity mode. In the dual receiver diversity mode, the mobile communications device may switch between one of a number of diversity combining techniques based on the quality of reception.