Patent ID: 8983557
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for providing power to one or more of a plurality of components respectively associated with a plurality of receive paths of a receiver, the method comprising: determining a first level of performance associated with each receive path of the plurality of receive paths; determining, based on i) the first level of performance associated with each receive path of the plurality of receive paths and ii) a minimum reception performance metric, whether use of a subset of the plurality of receive paths will meet or exceed the minimum reception performance metric; in response to determining that the use of the subset of the plurality of receive paths will meet or exceed the minimum reception performance metric, ceasing to provide power to each component respectively associated with the plurality of receive paths other than the one or more of the plurality of components respectively associated with the subset of the plurality of receive paths; and in response to determining, based on a second level of performance of the subset of the plurality of receive paths and based on the minimum reception performance metric, that a smaller subset of the subset of the plurality of receive paths will meet or exceed the minimum reception performance metric, ceasing to provide power to each component respectively associated with the plurality of receive paths other than the one or more of the plurality of components respectively associated with the smaller subset of the subset of the plurality of receive paths; or in response to determining that the smaller subset of the subset of the plurality of receive paths will not meet the minimum reception performance metric, providing power to the components respectively associated with the subset of the plurality of receive paths.