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Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 14, 2014
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property Ii, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Jack Harriman Winters, Middletown, NJ (US);

Yang-Seok Choi, Liberty Lakes, WA (US);

Byoung-Jo J. Kim, Morganville, NJ (US);

Andreas Molisch, North Plainfield, NJ (US);

Moe Z. Win, Cambridge, MA (US);

Hui Lo, Marlboro, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0854 (2013.01); H04B 7/0874 (2013.01); H04B 1/1027 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of performing receive antenna selection is presented. The method executes a determination operation for a set of receive antennas, determines a maximum result of the determination operation for two of the antennas, eliminates one of the two antennas from the set of antennas, and repeats the determination and elimination process until only a predetermined number of antennas remain in the set. The signals from these remaining antennas are then processed. The present invention reduces receiver complexity and cost.


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