Abstract: A method provides a technique for optimally combining communication beams. The method forms a plurality of beams from captured signals. One beam is selected as the primary beam while a subset of the others are applied to auxiliary receivers. A digital signal processor weights and combines these primary and secondary beams.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 16, 2002
Date of Patent:
January 17, 2006
Assignee:
Cingular Wirless II, Inc.
Inventors:
Titus Lo, Dennis Rosenauer, Douglas Frank Stolarz
Abstract: A method time-stamps an electronic message in accordance with information about the time zone in which the intended recipient resides where the message is originally received by a message center in a time zone different from the intended recipient.