MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH HUMAN INTERFACE DIVERSITY ANTENNA AND RELATED METHODS
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Abstract
A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable handheld housing, and a wireless transceiver carried by the housing. A pair of an antennas are positioned in side-by-side relation preferably in the upper portion of the portable handheld housing. A human interface diversity controller is connected to the wireless transceiver to preferentially operate with the plurality of antennas based upon a relative position of the portable handheld housing with respect to a hand of a human user. The device can select or weight the antennas based upon the position of the device when being held by a user.
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51 Claims
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26. A mobile wireless communication device comprising:
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a portable handheld housing; a wireless transceiver carried by said portable handheld housing; a plurality of antennas positioned in side-by-side relation within said portable handheld housing, said plurality of antennas having different conductive patterns from one another and having different polarizations; and a controller cooperating with said wireless transceiver and said plurality of antennas to preferentially weight transmit signals based upon received signal strength. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A mobile wireless communication device comprising:
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a portable handheld housing; a wireless transceiver carried by said portable handheld housing; a plurality of antennas positioned in side-by-side relation within said portable handheld housing, said plurality of antennas having different conductive patterns from one another and having orthogonal polarizations; a controller cooperating with said wireless transceiver and said plurality of antennas to preferentially weight transmit signals based upon received signal strength; a display carried by said portable handheld housing and connected to said controller; and at least one user input device carried by said portable handheld housing and connected to said controller. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A method of operating a mobile wireless communications device comprising a portable handheld housing, a wireless transceiver carried by the portable handheld housing, a plurality of antennas positioned in side-by-side relation within the portable handheld housing with the plurality of antennas having different conductive patterns from one another and having different polarizations, and a controller connected to the plurality of antennas and wireless transceiver, the method comprising:
using the controller in cooperation with the wireless transceiver and the plurality of antennas to preferentially weight transmit signals based upon received signal strength. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51)
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