Patent ID: 8165534
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a wireless transceiver; an antenna array coupled to the wireless transceiver, the antenna array comprising an omni-directional antenna and at least one narrow-beam sector antenna; and control logic operable to control the operation of the wireless transceiver and the antenna array; wherein the control logic is configured to couple the omni-directional antenna to the wireless transceiver so as to receive a reservation frame from a peer wireless transceiver while the at least one directional antenna is idle; wherein the control logic is configured to determine a directional antenna selected from the at least one directional antenna to employ so as to communicate with the peer wireless transceiver; and wherein the control logic sends a poll frame to the peer wireless transceiver to initiate communications with the peer wireless transceiver.