Patent ID: 7447171

Claim:
A method of combining satellite and terrestrial signals, comprising: receiving a plurality of satellite signals and a terrestrial signal simultaneously at a plurality of spatially diverse antennas coupled to respective tuners; converting at least one among the plurality of satellite signals and the terrestrial signal from an analog signal to a digital signal forming a first digital stream; converting at least a second signal among the plurality of satellite signals and the terrestrial signal from an analog signal to a digital signal forming a second digital stream; selectively switching among the first digital stream and the second digital stream before demodulating using a plurality of algorithms that selectively uses respectively demodulated signals of the first digital stream and the second digital stream to control the selective switching to provide a plurality of multiplexed signals; continuously demodulating the first digital stream or the second digital stream or both based on the simultaneously received satellite and terrestrial signals which simultaneously feed a switch arrangement performing the selective switching; and combining the multiplexed signals to form a combined signal.