Patent ID: 7136438

Claim:
A method for processing a signal received from a wireless local area network transmitter, the method comprising: receiving a first signal from a first antenna terminal and a second signal from a second antenna terminal, each signal originating from the transmitter and including at least one packet, the at least one packet having a training portion and a data portion; measuring signal strengths for the first and second signals during the training portion of the at least one packet; determining a first set of weighting factors based on the measured signal strengths, the first set of weighting factors being used to select the first or the second signal, applying the first set of weighting factors to an array synthesizer for reception of the training portion of the at least one packet; correlating the first and second signals with a stored reference signal to determine a second set of weighting factors, wherein the correlating is completed during the training portion of the at least one packet; and applying the second set of weighting factors to the array synthesizer at fixed timing before the data portion of the at least one packet.