Patent ID: 8660057

Claim:
A communication device, comprising: a master component comprising: a digital baseband module; a modem module communicatively coupled to the digital baseband module; and an antenna communicatively coupled to the modem module; a set of slave components, each slave component comprising: a first antenna configured to wirelessly communicate with an external device using a first carrier frequency; a second antenna configured to wirelessly communicate with the antenna of the master component using a second carrier frequency; and a frequency converter configured to (i) convert signals received through the second antenna from the second carrier frequency into the first carrier frequency and (ii) convert signals received through the first antenna from the first carrier frequency into the second carrier frequency, wherein the first carrier frequency is lower than the second carrier frequency, wherein the first antenna is larger than the second antenna, wherein the digital baseband module is configured to select a plurality of slave components from the set of slave components to communicate with the external device, wherein the modem module is configured to split a signal received at the modem module at a third frequency into a set of signal streams at the second carrier frequency, the third carrier frequency higher than the second carrier frequency, and wherein the master component antenna is configured to (i) receive the set of signal streams from the modem module and (ii) transmit each signal stream in the set of signal streams to the second antenna of one of the slave components in the plurality of slave components.