Patent ID: 7391832

Claim:
A method for receiving a transmitted radio frequency (RF) signal based on an input signal, the transmitted RF signal being transmitted by a multi-antenna transmitting device and being received by a plurality of antennas of a receiver, the antennas of the receiver being adapted to produce a corresponding plurality of receive RF signals in response to the transmitted RF signal, the method comprising: splitting each of the plurality of received RF signals into a plurality of RF signal components; identifying which one of a plurality of logical channels is assigned to each of the plurality of RF signal components, each logical channel comprising a different frequency channel; weighting each of the plurality of RF signal components with receive RF weight values; combining ones of the resultant RF weighted signal components to form a plurality of RF weighted signals; converting the plurality of RF weighted signals into receive baseband signals; weighting each of the receive baseband signals with receive baseband weight values; and multiplexing the receive baseband weighted signals to obtain an estimate of the input signal.