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US 7,570,973 B1Granted
Programmable mobile radiotelephone terminal
AssigneePalm, Inc.
InventorsBernd Bienek, Dietmar Gapski, Klaus-Dieter Pillekamp, Xihe Tuo
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Abstract
A programmable mobile phone terminal includes a transmitter stage, a receiver stage, a switch-over and adapter stage having an arrangement of passive structural elements connected to a plurality of microswitches or microrelays programmed by a predetermined configuration in at least one functional parameter, and a control unit associated with the transmitter stage and the receiver stage, for setting predetermined values of the functional parameter.
Claims27
A terminal for use with a mobile phone, comprising:
- a transmitter stage;
- a receiver stage;
- a switch-over and adapter stage electrically connected to an antenna and configured to enable the transmitter stage and the receiver stage to communicate via the antenna;
- passive structural elements in the transmitter stage, the receiver stage, and the switch-over and adapter stage;
- microswitches or microrelays associated with the passive structural elements, the microswitches or microrelays being actuable to configure the passive structural elements to produce at least one functional parameter, the at least one functional parameter comprising a frequency characteristic;
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- a control unit that is programmable in response to a wireless signal to determine a configuration for the microswitches or microrelays to set a value of the at least one functional parameter;
- wherein passive structural elements in the transmitter stage, the receiver stage, and the switch-over and adapter stage are integrated on a common substrate;
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- wherein the control unit comprises:
- memory for storing data for switching matrices, wherein switching matrices stored in the memory correspond to values associated with the frequency characteristic;
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- a stage to associate the set value of the frequency characteristic with a corresponding switching matrix, the control unit being programmable to actuate the microswitches or microrelays in accordance with the corresponding switching matrix.
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A terminal for use with a mobile phone, comprising:
- a duplexer configured to enable signal transmission and reception via a common antenna, the duplexer comprising passive structural elements and microswitches or microrelays associated with the passive structural elements, the microswitches or microrelays being actuable to configure the passive structural elements to affect a frequency characteristic associated with at least one of signal transmission and reception;
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- a control unit that is programmable to actuate the microswitches or microrelays to thereby affect a configuration of the passive structural elements and set a value corresponding to the frequency characteristic;
- wherein the duplexer is integrated on a common ceramic substrate along with other components of the mobile phone;
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- wherein the control unit comprises:
- configuration memory for storing data for switching matrices, wherein switching matrices stored in the configuration memory correspond to values associated with the frequency characteristic;
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- a stage to associate the set value of the frequency characteristic with a corresponding switching matrix, the control unit being programmed to actuate the microswitches or microrelays in accordance with the corresponding switching matrix.
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A terminal for use with a mobile phone, comprising:
- a transmitter stage;
- a receiver stage;
- a switch-over and adapter stage;
- passive structural elements in the transmitter stage, the receiver stage, and the switchover and adapter stage;
- microswitches or microrelays associated with the passive structural elements, the microswitches or microrelays being actuable to configure the passive structural elements to produce at least one functional parameter, the at least one functional parameter comprising a frequency characteristic;
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- a control unit that is programmable over a wireless interface to actuate the microswitches or microrelays to set a value of the at least one functional parameter;
- wherein the control unit comprises:
- configuration memory for storing data for a plurality of switching matrices, each switching matrix corresponding to a value associated with the at least one functional parameter;
- and
- a pointer stage to associate a set value of the at least one functional parameter with a switching matrix stored in the configuration memory.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.