Patent ID: 8467485

Claim:
A smart antenna module for processing multi-channel signals received by smart antennas to generate single channel signals for input to a baseband processing module, the smart antenna module comprising: a plurality of buffers, each configured to cache respective inputted multi-channel signals; a plurality of weight adjusting circuits, each associated with a respective one of the plurality of buffers and configured to weigh data outputted from the respective buffer according to a respectively received weight; a combiner configured to combine the weighted data outputted from each of the plurality of weight adjusting modules so as to combine the inputted multi-channel signals into single-channel signals; and a controller configured to: switch the smart antenna module between an initialization mode and a processing mode responsive to a control signal from the baseband processing module; control the smart antenna module to pass-through the multi-channel signals to the baseband processing module while in the initialization mode; receive control information from the baseband processing module while in said initialization mode; and compute combining weights for said weight adjustinq modules using said control information while in said processing mode.