Patent ID: 7570973

Claim:
A terminal for use with a mobile phone, comprising: a transmitter stage; a receiver stage; a switch-over and adapter stage electrically connected to an antenna and configured to enable the transmitter stage and the receiver stage to communicate via the antenna; passive structural elements in the transmitter stage, the receiver stage, and the switch-over and adapter stage; microswitches or microrelays associated with the passive structural elements, the microswitches or microrelays being actuable to configure the passive structural elements to produce at least one functional parameter, the at least one functional parameter comprising a frequency characteristic; and a control unit that is programmable in response to a wireless signal to determine a configuration for the microswitches or microrelays to set a value of the at least one functional parameter; wherein passive structural elements in the transmitter stage, the receiver stage, and the switch-over and adapter stage are integrated on a common substrate; and wherein the control unit comprises: memory for storing data for switching matrices, wherein switching matrices stored in the memory correspond to values associated with the frequency characteristic; and a stage to associate the set value of the frequency characteristic with a corresponding switching matrix, the control unit being programmable to actuate the microswitches or microrelays in accordance with the corresponding switching matrix.