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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:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2004
Applicants:
Ashim Biswas, Karnataka, IN;
Xintian E. Lin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ashim Biswas, Karnataka, IN;
Xintian E. Lin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A wireless communication device that includes more than two antennas considers only two of those antennas for use in receiving any particular wireless packet. During reception of an initial portion of a wireless packet, a quality metric may be measured for each of the two antennas being considered. One of the two antennas may then be selected to receive a payload portion of the wireless packet based on the measured metrics. In at least one embodiment, a different pair of antennas is considered for each successive received packet.