Patent ID: 9490889
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H04B

Claim Text:
1. An antenna diversity and beamforming coexistence method applied to a wireless communication device which supports both a transmitter/receiver (TX/RX) antenna diversity mechanism and a beamformer/beamformee mechanism, comprising: determining whether a plurality of wireless link partners linked to the wireless communication device respectively support the beamformer/beamformee mechanism and accordingly generating a determination result; and determining whether to enable/disable the TX/RX antenna diversity mechanism of the wireless communication device and to enable/disable the beamformer/beamformee mechanism of the wireless communication device according to the determination result; wherein when the beamformee mechanism is determined to be disabled, controlling the wireless communication device to transmit a default value in response to a received beamforming protocol packet; and the step of determining whether to enable/disable the TX/RX antenna diversity mechanism of the wireless communication device and to enable/disable the beamformer/beamformee mechanism of the wireless communication device according to the determination result comprises: