Patent ID: 7660561
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for processing a communication received by at least two (2) antenna assemblies, said communication being comprised of sequentially transmitted slots of equal length, said apparatus comprising: a channel estimator; first and second units coupled to the channel estimator for determining signal quality based on at least one of history, recent channel estimation and optimization; a switch responsive to the signal quality that selectively couples slots from said antenna assemblies to a common input of said channel estimator, wherein the slots from each antenna assembly are coupled to said common input in a uniform sequence responsive to a first quality output, wherein said switch couples outputs of the antenna assemblies to said common unit in a non-uniform sequence responsive to a second quality output different from said first quality output; wherein switching in said non-uniform sequence comprises forwarding at least two consecutive slots of one of said two antenna assemblies to said common input before forwarding a single slot from the other of said two antenna assemblies.