Patent ID: 9226175
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: H04B,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for adaptively disabling receiver diversity, the method comprising a wireless communication device: determining an active data traffic pattern defined based on one or more of: a data rate, a frequency of data communication, a packet size, or a packet inter-arrival time; defining a physical layer metric threshold based at least in part on a physical layer channel quality needed to support the active data traffic pattern; defining an application layer metric threshold based at least in part on an application layer quality of service (QoS) needed to support an active application that generates at least in part the active data traffic pattern; comparing a measured physical layer channel quality to the physical layer metric threshold; comparing an application layer measurement to the application layer metric threshold; and disabling receiver diversity in an instance in which the measured physical layer channel quality satisfies the physical layer metric threshold and the application layer measurement satisfies the application layer metric threshold.