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Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 30, 2013
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hongbo Yan, Vista, CA (US);

Francis M. Ngai, Louisville, CO (US);

Jafar Mohseni, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 (2015.01); H04L 5/16 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0802 (2013.01); H04B 7/0602 (2013.01); H04B 7/0805 (2013.01); H04B 7/0817 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for antenna switching without using a radio-frequency switch are provided. A signal received via a first antenna is digitized to form a first digital received signal. A signal received via a second antenna is digitized to form a second digital received signal. A switch selects the first digital received signal or the second digital received signal to be supplied to a modem to be demodulated. The switch may also supply a digital transmit signal from the modem to be supplied to digital-to-analog converters to and then transmitted using the first or second antenna. Additionally, when the modem is demodulating the signal received via the first antenna, another modem may be demodulating the signal received via the second antenna and vice versa.


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