Patent ID: 8583170

Claim:
A method of simultaneously receiving communication signals with multi-carrier aggregation spread over several bands in a radio frequency (RF) wireless communication network, comprising: receiving a first communication signal on a first carrier frequency in an aggregated multi -carrier spectrum; receiving a second communication signal on a second carrier frequency in said aggregated multi-carrier spectrum different from the first carrier frequency; providing a first frequency source; dividing the first frequency source output by a first factor to generate a first RF local oscillator (RF LO) frequency; dividing the first frequency source output by a second factor, different from the first factor, to generate a second RF LO frequency different from the first RF LO frequency; down-converting the first received signal to a first intermediate frequency signal by mixing the first received signal with the first RF LO frequency; and down-converting the second received signal to a second intermediate frequency signal, at a different frequency from the first intermediate frequency signal, by mixing the second received signal with the second RF LO frequency.