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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:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2006
Applicants:
Iwo-martin Mergler, Miranda, AU;
Michael James, Hamble, GB;
Inventors:
Iwo-Martin Mergler, Miranda, AU;
Michael James, Hamble, GB;
Assignee:
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A communication device () has a Wi-Fi® device () for communicating with another communication device (). The Wi-Fi® device () has one output connected to an antenna () and another output connected to a coaxial cable jack () via a coupler (). The antenna () therefore provides a wireless communications link and the coupler () provides a wired communications link. A diversity switch () of the Wi-Fi® device () uses antenna diversity switching provided for in the Wi-Fi® standards to switch between the wireless communications link and the wired communications link.