Patent ID: 8433272

Claim:
A receiver, comprising: a jammer detector configured to detect the presence or the absence of jamming in a communication signal within a gain state; an amplifier configured to amplify the communication signal in a high linearity receiving mode or a low linearity receiving mode, wherein the high linearity receiving mode corresponds with a lower gain for the gain state in the amplifier relative to that of the low linearity receiving mode; and a processing unit coupled to the jammer detector, the processing unit being configured to control the amplifier to amplify the communication signal in either the high linearity receiving mode or the low linearity receiving mode, based on the output of the jammer detector detecting the presence or the absence of jamming in the communication signal, wherein the processing unit is configured to control the amplifier to amplify the communication signal in the high linearity receiving mode if the jammer detector detects the presence of jamming in the communication signal.