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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:
Jan. 23, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2001
Matthew P. J. Baker, Canterbury, GB;
Deborah L. Raynes, Horley, GB;
Bernard Hunt, Redhill, GB;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A radio communication system comprises a communication channel between a transmitter () having a plurality of antennas () and a receiver () having at least one antenna (). In such a system the communication channel comprises a plurality of paths () having a range of characteristics. Data for transmission is generated by one or more applications () and has one or more categories assigned to it, for example by the addition of tags by a tagging block () indicating its importance or other requirements. Depending on the assigned categories and the characteristics of the paths (), the data is mapped to one or more of the transmitter's antennas () to select a suitable transmission path ().