Patent ID: 9264907
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for operating a wireless terminal equipped with at least a first antenna and a second antenna, the method comprising: sensing signal strengths of a received signal on at least two polarizations; discovering the polarization for the received signal based on the sensed signal strengths of the received signal on the at least two polarizations; transmitting a first signal to a base station using the first antenna having a first polarization in a first direction, the first polarization based on the discovered polarization, wherein the base station provides wireless wide area network (WAN) connectivity to the wireless terminal; transmitting a second signal to a second wireless terminal using the second antenna having a second polarization in a second direction, wherein the wireless terminal provides ad hoc peer-to-peer connectivity to the second wireless terminal, wherein said ad hoc peer-to-peer connectivity is established directly between the wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal free of call set-up via any network managing entity, and wherein said ad hoc peer-to-peer connectivity is established without routing a call via the base station; and obtaining a channel allocation for communicating with the base station, wherein the channel allocation allocates at least one of a forward link timeslot and a reverse link timeslot for the wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal, wherein the first signal and the second signal are transmitted in a same frequency spectrum, wherein the first signal and the second signal are transmitted in overlapping time intervals, and wherein the second signal is transmitted within the allocated at least one of the forward link timeslot and the reverse link timeslot.