Patent ID: 9531446
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G01S,H04B,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for streamlining a beamforming process between wireless communicating devices, comprising: obtaining a relative position between a first wireless communicating device and a second wireless communicating device using an omnidirectional wireless communication link; commencing a beamforming process for a directional wireless communication link, with a processor in at least one of the first and second wireless communicating devices, based on the obtained relative position between the first and second wireless communicating devices; and wherein the beamforming process comprising conducting a sector sweep in a limited set of one or more sectors, the limited set being less than all of the sectors and defined based on the obtained relative position between the first and second wireless communicating devices; wherein the beamforming process bypassing a sector sweep and conducting only refined beamforming when the processor determines that the obtained relative position between the first and second wireless communicating devices supports such an approach; wherein the directional wireless communication link is a 60 GHz communication link; transmitting data across the directional wireless communication link when the processor substantially completes the beamforming process.