Patent ID: 9444540
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H04B

Claim Text:
1. A wireless electronic device, comprising: upper and lower antennas that each operate using the same broadband cellular technology; a housing for the wireless electronic device that comprises portions of the upper and lower antennas; transceiver circuitry configured to repeatedly toggle between wireless reception operations that occur during a first time period and wireless transmission operations that occur during a second time period, wherein a duration of the first time period and a duration of the second time period are each dynamically adjusted based on detected bandwidth requirements; a multi-transmit-port switch configured to route radio-frequency transmission signals from the transceiver circuitry to a selected antenna of the upper and lower antennas; and transmit-receive switching circuitry coupled between the multi-transmit-port switch and the upper and lower antennas, wherein the transmit-receive switching circuitry is operable to repeatedly toggle between a first configuration in which radio-frequency reception signals are routed from the upper and lower antennas to the transceiver circuitry and a second configuration in which the radio-frequency transmission signals are provided from the multi-transmit-port switch to the selected antenna, and in the first configuration the upper and lower antennas are coupled to the transceiver circuitry through a corresponding one of a plurality of receive paths of the transmit receive switching circuitry while bypassing the multi-transmit-port switch.