Patent ID: 8548009

Claim:
A combiner system for frequency combining comprising: one or more combiner stages each comprising: a deinterleaver adapted to receive an interleaved input signal comprised of a plurality of input signals that are time interleaved to share a single data pathway_and to output a first input signal and a second input signal, the first input signal having a bandwidth that at least partially overlaps a bandwidth of the second input signal; a first filter coupled with a frequency downconverter and adapted to receive the first input signal, the first filter and frequency downconverter adapted to filter the first input signal and downconvert the bandwidth of the first input signal to form a first output signal; a second filter coupled with a frequency upconverter and adapted to receive the second input signal, the second filter and frequency upconverter adapted to filter the second input signal and upconvert the bandwidth of the second input signal to form a second output signal; and a signal adder adapted to add the first output signal and the second output signal together to form a stage output signal such that a first output signal bandwidth is located in a lower portion of a stage output signal bandwidth and a second output signal bandwidth is located in an upper portion of the stage output signal bandwidth; wherein one of the one or more of the combiner stages is bypassed with a third input signal of the two or more input signals in the interleaved input signal by determining when data corresponding to the third input signal is included in a multiplexer output signal and when data from the stage output signal is included in the multiplexer output signal using control data in the interleaved input signal and a selector multiplexer coupled with the interleaved input signal and the stage output signal.