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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:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2005
Applicants:
Michael E. Wilhoyte, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Michael V. Goettemoeller, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael E. Wilhoyte, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Michael V. Goettemoeller, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for determining an optimal antenna position of a directional antenna in a wireless communication system are described. The optimal antenna position is determined by calculating a steering metric value for possible antenna positions and the antenna position with the highest steering metric value is selected as the optimal antenna position.