Patent ID: 9590711
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04B

Claim:
1. A method for managing beamformed signals, the method comprising: receiving beamformed signals from one or more arrays of receiving elements, which one or more arrays of receiving elements send beamformed signals at given transmission rates; recovering information from the received beamformed signals; measuring a quality of the recovered information, using a metric that estimates a distance between the recovered information and reference information; and based on the measured quality, instructing the one or more arrays of receiving elements to change the transmission rates at which the one or more arrays of receiving elements send beamformed signals; wherein: the receiving, recovering, measuring and instructing to change the transmission rates are carried out so as to determine transmission rates for which the measured quality has a desired quality and instruct the one or more arrays of receiving elements to change the transmission rates at which they send beamformed signals to the determined transmission rates for which the measured quality has the desired quality; and determining transmission rates for which the measured quality has the desired quality comprises changing a dimension of a beamforming matrix corresponding to the received beamformed signals.