Patent ID: 7570127

Claim:
A system for suppressing an undesired signal component of a communication signal, comprising: means for tapping a modulated signal output from a modulator and providing a tapped portion of the modulated signal at a tapped signal output of the means for tapping; a receiver coupled to the tapped signal output of the means for tapping via a signal input, the receiver, having a control input and a control output, being configured to detect signal voltages representing power levels of selected signal components in the tapped portion in response to a computer instruction that specifies the selected signal component and that is received on the control input; and a local RF processor coupled to the receiver's control input and control output, the processor also being coupled to parameter-adjustable components that are coupled to inputs of the modulator, the processor configured to evaluate the detected voltages of the signal components of the communication signal to determine whether the power levels of the signal components are optimized and to instruct the parameter-adjustable components to adjust parameters based on the determined power level of the signal components so that transmission of the communication signal is optimized.