Patent ID: 8346293

Claim:
A radio communication apparatus comprising: a plurality of antennas; a plurality of reconfigurable radio processing sections that are provided corresponding to the antennas, each of said reconfigurable radio processing sections being configured for supporting at least two different communication schemes respectively, the at least two different communication schemes corresponding to different types of communication networks respectively; and a control section that controls each of the plurality of reconfigurable radio processing sections independently, and changes processing contents, including the communication schemes, of each of the reconfigurable radio processing sections independently based on respective communication quality information relating to the at least two different communication schemes, wherein the control section comprises: a quality information collection section that collects the communication quality information of a signal after processing by each of the reconfigurable radio processing sections; a processing selection section that selects the processing contents of each of the reconfigurable radio processing sections based on the communication duality information collected by the quality information collection section; and a processing change control section that changes the processing contents previously in each of the reconfigurable radio processing sections to the processing contents selected in the processing selection section; wherein the processing selection section receives other requirements in addition to the communication quality information as inputs and selects the processing contents in each of the reconfigurable radio processing sections based on the communication quality information and the other requirements, and wherein the other requirements comprise requirements based on a usage fee from a user.