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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. 29, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2004
Applicants:
Xintian E. Lin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Qinghua LI, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Allen W. Bettner, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Xintian E. Lin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Qinghua Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Allen W. Bettner, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for diversity switching control are generally described herein. According to one embodiment, a diversity control network is introduced which effectively reduces the number of coaxial cables required to interface with N antennas from the conventional N cables, to N/2 thereby providing significant cost saving.