Patent ID: 8315572

Claim:
A local wireless device for communicating with a remote wireless device, the local wireless device comprising a plurality of antennas and control logic for selecting a particular one of the antennas for communicating with the remote wireless device, the control logic causing the local wireless device to execute the following steps: (a) selecting an antenna from the plurality of antennas; (b) receiving via the antenna selected in step (a) a message transmitted from the remote wireless device; (c) determining a quality of the message received in step (b) and storing data related to the determined quality in association with the antenna selected in step (a); (d) repeating steps (a) to (c) for each of the plurality of antennas; (e) based on the data stored in step (c), designating the particular one of the antennas for use by the local wireless device for communicating with the remote wireless device; and (f) transmitting a message from the local wireless device to the remote wireless device using the particular one of the antennas designated in step (e).