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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2005
Somsack Sychaleun, Kanata, CA;
Gregory Carleton, Ottawa, CA;
Steve Beaudin, Nepean, CA;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention facilitates the reduction of cabling required in a base station environment. When receive diversity is employed, main and diversity antennas are used to receive common signals at different locations. The signals received at the main and diversity antennas are combined with one another in the masthead and transmitted over a single feeder cable to a base housing for further processing. Thus, signals that were normally sent over separate feeder cables and combined in the base housing are combined in the masthead and sent over a single feeder cable. The technique can be replicated for each sector provided by the base station environment.