Patent ID: 9398565
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: H04B,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of communicating with a wireless terminal, the method comprising: providing first information responsive to receiving first and second multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) data streams from the wireless terminal through a first antenna array of a first sector during a first transmission time interval; providing second information responsive to receiving the first and second MIMO data streams from the wireless terminal through a second antenna array of a second sector during the first transmission time interval, wherein the first and second sectors are different and the first and second antenna arrays are different; generating an offset value responsive to the first information and the second information, wherein the offset value defines a difference between the first and second MIMO data streams for a second transmission time interval; and transmitting the offset value to the wireless terminal, wherein generating the offset value comprises generating a first offset value responsive to the first information and generating a second offset value responsive to the second information, wherein the first offset value defines a first difference between data rates of the first and second MIMO data streams for the second transmission time interval after the first transmission time interval, wherein the second offset value defines a second difference between data rates of the first and second MIMO data streams for the second transmission time interval, and wherein transmitting the offset value comprises transmitting the first and second offset values to the wireless terminal.