Patent ID: 8902799
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of power reduction in a multiple receiver wireless communication device, the method comprising: receiving a wireless signal through multiple receivers of the wireless communication device, the wireless communication device dynamically reconfigurable to support any one of a plurality of modulation coding schemes; determining a fixed modulation coding scheme from at least a first fixed modulation coding scheme and a second fixed modulation coding scheme for at least a portion of the received wireless signal; selecting a signal metric type based on the determined fixed modulation coding scheme, wherein a first signal metric type is selected on a condition that the first fixed modulation coding scheme was determined, and a second signal metric type is selected on a condition that the second fixed modulation coding scheme was determined, wherein the selected signal metric type is from a group consisting essentially of a signal to noise ratio (SNR), a carrier and interference to noise ratio (CINR), a packet error rate (PER), a frame error rate (FER), a symbol error rate (SER), a bit error rate (BER), and a received signal strength indication (RSSI); measuring a signal metric value of the received wireless signal, wherein the signal metric value corresponds to the selected signal metric type; and selectively deactivating at least a portion of one of the multiple receivers based on the signal metric value.