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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2015
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Xin Wang, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Andrew E. Youtz, Princeton, NJ (US);
Christopher M. Schmidt, Branchburg, NJ (US);
Paul Venizelos, Ridgewood, NJ (US);
Lily Zhu, Parsippany, NJ (US);
VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A wireless communication device may include a logic configured to select a first antenna as a transmitting antenna and a second antenna as a non-transmitting antenna; and to calculate a short-term antenna metric difference between the transmitting antenna and the non-transmitting antenna, a mid-term antenna metric difference between the transmitting antenna and the non-transmitting antenna, and a long-term antenna metric difference between the transmitting antenna and the non-transmitting antenna. The logic may be further configured to switch the second antenna to the transmitting antenna and the first antenna to the non-transmitting antenna, in response to determining that at least one of the calculated short-term antenna metric difference is greater than a short-term threshold, the calculated mid-term antenna metric difference is greater than a mid-term threshold, or the long-term antenna metric difference is greater than a long-term threshold.