Patent ID: 7515893

Claim:
A method in a station of a wireless network, the method comprising: wirelessly receiving data via each of a plurality of antennas, the data corresponding to a packet of information transmitted from a remote station; sampling the received data corresponding to the received packet to form data samples; determining a measure of signal quality from samples of the received data for each of the antennas, wherein the measure of the received signal quality is determined for receiving from the antenna on which the samples of the received data are received; and selecting one of the plurality of receive antennas as the antenna for receiving from the remote station, the selecting according to which antenna provides the best or good enough determined measure of signal quality, wherein the received data corresponds to data transmitted that is modulated according to a modulation scheme such that a modulated signal ideally corresponds to one of a set of ideal constellation points, and wherein the, measure of signal quality is a measure of how close symbol points of the received samples of the received data correspond to ideal constellation points.