Patent ID: 9537546
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a transmitter/receiver device for executing wireless communications, comprising: determining, by a processor, if a pair of millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communicating devices are implementing a multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) scheme between said pair of mmWave wireless communicating devices; establishing multiple separate beamformed links between the pair of mmWave wireless communicating devices; and implementing the MIMO scheme between the pair of mmWave wireless communicating devices; wherein the processor determines if the pair of mmWave wireless communicating devices are implementing the MIMO scheme between said pair of mmWave wireless communicating devices based on information provided by each one of the pair of mmWave wireless communicating devices; wherein the information provided by each one of the pair of mmWave wireless communicating devices being a separate field in a MAC/PHY protocol for each one of the pair of mmWave wireless communicating devices.