Patent ID: 9313010
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of controlling uplink antenna selection in a user equipment comprising a first antenna and a second antenna, the method comprising: determining whether the first antenna is in line-of-sight (LOS) of a signal source; determining whether the second antenna is in LOS of the signal source; selecting, by circuitry of the user equipment when both the first antenna and the second antenna are in LOS, one of the first antenna and the second antenna as an uplink antenna according to fading conditions of signals received by the first antenna and the second antenna; and selecting, by the circuitry when one of the first antenna and the second antenna is in LOS and the other of the first antenna and the second antenna is not in LOS, the one antenna in LOS as the uplink antenna.