Patent ID: 9647335
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H01Q,H04B

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: determining a first desired beamforming direction for a main lobe and a second desired beamforming direction for a grating lobe of an antenna array having multiple antenna elements; controlling transmission from the antenna array using beamforming to orient a main lobe in the first desired beamforming direction, wherein controlling the transmission includes selectively delaying a time of transmission from each of the multiple antenna elements to orient the main lobe in the first desired beamforming direction; adjusting spacing between multiple energized antenna elements to cause the antenna array to orient a grating lobe in the second desired beamforming direction while maintaining the first desired beamforming direction of the main lobe; and simultaneously transmitting signals to a first node in the network in the first desired beamforming direction of the main lobe and to a second node in the network in the second desired beamforming direction of the grating lobe.