Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic antenna switching
- Patent Title (中): 动态天线切换
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Application No.: US14291769Application Date: 2014-05-30
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Publication No.: US09231686B2Publication Date: 2016-01-05
- Inventor: Xiaojun Chen , Peter M Agboh , Indranil S Sen , Hsin-Yuo Liu , Vusthia Sunil Reddy , Diego C Hernandez , Digvijay A Jadhav , Mohit Narang , Ruben Caballero
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Jeffrey C. Hood
- Main IPC: H04B7/08
- IPC: H04B7/08

Abstract:
Dynamic antenna switching based on weighted signal to noise ratio (SNR). A wireless device may include multiple antennas. SNR at each active antenna may be calculated. An antenna-specific weight may be applied to each antenna's SNR. The antenna-specific weights may further be radio specific and/or transmit or receive specific in some cases. Antenna selection (possibly just for a specific radio and/or for transmit or receive operations, depending on the specificity of the antenna weights), including potentially switching which antenna is used, may be based on the resulting weighted SNR values for each antenna. If the antenna-specific weights are radio specific and/or transmit or receive operation specific, the method may be performed multiple times with different antenna-specific weights to select antenna(s) for different radios and/or for other operations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150349870A1 Dynamic Antenna Switching Public/Granted day:2015-12-03
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