Method and system for antenna switching
AssigneeSparkmotion Inc.
InventorIzhak Duenyas
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Abstract
A client terminal, such as a customer premises equipment (CPE), for receiving a communication signal in a plurality of reception configurations. The client terminal comprises an antenna unit having a plurality of reception configurations for receiving communication signal having a plurality of frames, each the frame having a predefined frame segment, a receiver, a switching module configured for switching between operational and testing receptions of the communication signal respectively by the receiver via the antenna unit in operational and testing configurations, and a timing circuit configured for timing the switching during the operational reception to allow the receiver to receive the testing reception when the predefined frame segment is received via the antenna unit in operational configuration.
Claims21
A client terminal for receiving a communication signal in a plurality of reception configurations, the communication signal having a plurality of frames, the client terminal comprising:
- an antenna unit having a plurality of reception configurations;
- a receiver;
- a switching module communicatively coupled with the antenna unit and the receiver, and which switches the antenna unit between an operational reception configuration and a testing reception configuration and provides signals received in the reception configuration and the testing configuration to the receiver;
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- a timing circuit communicatively coupled to the switching module and providing a control signal to the switching module to cause the switching module to switch to said operational reception configuration during a first predefined segment of a frame containing user data and to cause the switching module to switch to said testing reception configuration during a second predefined segment of said frame containing network management data.
A method for operating a client terminal with an antenna unit having a plurality of reception configurations in a frame based communication system, the method, comprising:
- a) connecting a receiver to receive an operational reception of a communication signal of a frame via an operational antenna configuration;
- b) switching said receiver to receive a tested reception via a tested antenna configuration during a predefined frame segment of said frame containing network management data;
- c) performing a quality analysis of said tested reception;
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- d) selectively connecting said receiver to said tested antenna configuration for a prospective reception of said communication signal if said quality analysis is indicative of a preferability of said tested reception over said operational reception.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.