Patent ID: 8233935

Claim:
A method for handling wireless signals, the method comprising: receiving a first wireless protocol signals and a second wireless protocol signals via a receiver in a wireless device; and selecting within said receiver one of: a first processing path for said received first wireless protocol signals and a second processing path for said received second wireless protocol signals, wherein: said first processing path comprises a duplexer downstream from an antenna, a first low noise amplifier downstream from said duplexer, a shared switch downstream from said first low noise amplifier and upstream from a first device that frequency converts said first wireless protocol signals, a shared bandpass filter downstream from said shared switch, and a shared low noise amplifier downstream from said shared bandpass filter; and said second processing path comprising said shared switch downstream from said antenna and upstream from a first device that frequency converts said second wireless protocol signals, said shared bandpass filter downstream from said shared switch, and said shared low noise amplifier downstream from said shared bandpass filter, wherein said selection is performed utilizing said shared switch.