Patent ID: 8090044

Claim:
A wireless transceiver comprising: a plurality of antennas; a plurality of signal recovery circuits, coupled to the plurality of antennas, that generate a selected number of received signals from a first subset of the plurality of antennas, based on a control signal; a receiver section, coupled to the plurality of signal recovery modules, that recovers an inbound data stream from the selected number of received signals; and a transmitter module, coupled to the plurality of antennas, that generates a transmit signal to a selected one of the plurality of antennas, based on the control signal; a processing module, coupled to the plurality of signal recovery circuits and the transmitter module, that generates the control signal, wherein the control signal controls the transmitter module to a cyclic mode of operation wherein the selected one of the plurality of antennas is varied in a cyclic pattern and wherein the processing module is further operable to select a favored transmit antenna of the plurality of antennas based on operation in the cyclic mode of operation and to generate the control signal switch to a fixed mode of operation where the selected one of the plurality of antennas is fixed as the favored transmit antenna; wherein the intersection between the first subset of the plurality of antennas and the selected one of the plurality of antennas is the null set for each value of the control signal.