Patent ID: 8634869
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A multi-mode communications device comprising: a first antenna; a duplexer; a second antenna; a transmitter chain for generating transmission signals having a first RF frequency; a first receiver chain corresponding to a second RF frequency, coupled to the first antenna via the duplexer, for processing signals, received via the first antenna, having a second RF frequency; a second receiver chain corresponding to the first RF frequency, coupled to the second antenna, for processing signals, received via the second antenna, having the first RF frequency; and a switching module used to switch between the second receiver chain corresponding to the first RF frequency and the first receiver chain corresponding to the second RF frequency, said multi-mode communications device using an output of only one receiver chain at any given time, said switching module outputting a signal from the one of the first and second receiver chains being used at a point in time.