US 11,777,569 B2
Directed wireless communication
Marcus Da Silva, Spokane, WA (US); Vahid Tarokh, Cambridge, MA (US); Praveen Mehrotra, Spokane, WA (US); William J. Crilly, Jr., Liberty Lake, WA (US); James Brennan, Sammamish, WA (US); Robert J. Conley, Liberty Lake, WA (US); Siavash Alamouti, Spokane, WA (US); Eduardo Casas, Vancouver (CA); Hujun Yin, Spokane, WA (US); Bobby Jose, Veradale, WA (US); and Yang-Seok Choi, Liberty Lake, WA (US)
Assigned to XR Communications LLC, Venice, CA (US)
Filed by XR Communications, LLC, Solana Beach, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2017, as Appl. No. 15/490,574.
Application 13/855,410 is a division of application No. 10/700,329, filed on Nov. 3, 2003, granted, now 8,412,106, issued on Apr. 2, 2013.
Application 15/490,574 is a continuation of application No. 15/260,147, filed on Sep. 8, 2016, granted, now 10,009,085.
Application 15/260,147 is a continuation of application No. 13/855,410, filed on Apr. 2, 2013, granted, now 9,462,589, issued on Oct. 4, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/423,660, filed on Nov. 4, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2017/0230092 A1, Aug. 10, 2017
Int. Cl. H04B 7/04 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01)
CPC H04B 7/0617 (2013.01) [H04B 7/04 (2013.01); H04B 7/0621 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless access point (AP) for communications with one or more client devices (CD) including a first client device, the wireless AP comprising:
a processor;
a memory operatively coupled to the processor;
a transceiver operatively coupled to the processor; and
an adaptive array antenna coupled to the transceiver;
wherein the processor is configured to:
generate first data packets for transmission to the first client device;
transmit, using the transceiver and the adaptive array antenna, a directed AP communication beam, including the first data packets, to the first client device;
receive, using the transceiver and the adaptive array antenna, a directed CD communication beam, including second data packets, from the first client device;
obtain, from the second data packets, antenna direction information of an antenna of the first client device;
store, in the memory, the obtained antenna direction information of the antenna of the first client device; and
coordinate, using the transceiver and the adaptive array antenna, directed wireless communications with the first client device based on the obtained antenna direction information of the antenna of the first client device stored in the memory.