Patent ID: 8817678

Claim:
A method of communication, the method comprising: in a first device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, each distributed transceiver of the first device comprising an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas: receiving information from a second device, the second device comprising a plurality of distributed transceivers, each distributed transceiver of the second device comprising an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas, the information received from the second device comprising a number of transceivers of the second device; based on the information received from the second device: identifying a plurality of pairs of distributed transceivers, each pair of identified distributed transceivers comprising a corresponding transceiver from the plurality of transceivers of the first device and a corresponding transceiver from the plurality of transceivers of the second device; for each identified pair of transceivers, identifying (i) a beam pattern for the antenna array of the corresponding distributed transceiver of the first device in the pair and (ii) a beam pattern for the antenna array of the corresponding distributed transceiver of the second device in the pair; and concurrently configuring the antenna arrays of each pair of distributed transceivers in the plurality of identified pairs of distributed transceivers to communicate an independent data stream between the first and second devices, each said data stream communicated between a corresponding pair of distributed transceivers utilizing the identified beam pattern for the antenna arrays of the corresponding pair of distributed transceivers.