Patent ID: 9634403
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H01Q,H04B

Claim:
1. A wireless device, comprising: two or more radios operating in parallel, wherein the two or more radios generate RF signals having a same center frequency and bandwidth; a switching network that selectively couples the generated RF signals from the two or more radios to an antenna array; an antenna array that generates a substantially omnidirectional radiation pattern, wherein the antenna array includes a plurality of selectable horizontally polarized antenna elements and a plurality of selectable vertically polarized antenna elements, the plurality of selectable antenna elements each having a corresponding radiation pattern; a first plurality of connecting elements, each of the first plurality of connecting elements selecting one or more of the plurality of antenna elements by coupling one or more of the plurality of antenna elements to one or more of said radios; a plurality of pattern shaping elements, wherein each of the plurality of a pattern shaping elements have a different shape; a second plurality of connecting elements, each of the second plurality of connecting elements coupling one or more of the plurality of pattern shaping elements to ground; and a controller that switches one or more of the second plurality of connecting elements to utilize a pattern shaping element with a particular shape and switches one or more of the first plurality of connecting elements, wherein utilization of the pattern shaping element with the particular shape and selection of one or more of the plurality of antenna elements by respective one of the first plurality of connecting elements change the substantially omnidirectional radiation pattern generated by the antenna array and wherein one or more of the selectable horizontally polarized antenna elements have a barrel-type shape with a slit.