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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014

Filed:

May. 18, 2011
Applicants:

Kari P. Pajukoski, Oulu, FI;

Kari J. Hooli, Oulu, FI;

Esa T. Tiirola, Kempele, FI;

Matti T. Kiiski, Oulunsalo, FI;

Pasi Eino Tapio Kinnunen, Oulu, FI;

Inventors:

Kari P. Pajukoski, Oulu, FI;

Kari J. Hooli, Oulu, FI;

Esa T. Tiirola, Kempele, FI;

Matti T. Kiiski, Oulunsalo, FI;

Pasi Eino Tapio Kinnunen, Oulu, FI;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 7/02 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/024 (2013.01); H04B 7/0874 (2013.01); H04W 72/082 (2013.01); H04B 7/0854 (2013.01); H04B 7/068 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed. A method includes receiving signals from a number of antennas, the signals from a number of user equipments and comprising a number of sub-bands allocated to the number of user equipments; selecting, based on one or more criteria and for each of number of selected sub-bands allocated to a selected one of the number of user equipments, one or more antennas of the number of antennas to be used for signal detection and interference suppression on the received signals for the selected user equipment; and performing, for the selected user equipment, the signal detection and interference suppression on the received signals for each of the number of selected sub-bands based on the corresponding selected one or more antennas for each of the number of selected sub-bands to create an output signal.


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