Patent ID: 6950416

Claim:
A transmitter system having a plurality of channels associated therewith, said system comprising: an antenna having a plurality of transmit signals associated therewith for radiation of at least one output of a plurality of modulation outputs of a transmitter wherein said plurality of transmit signals combine in free space to form a plurality of variable size beams in a radiation pattern; means for splitting each of said plurality of modulation transmitter outputs into signal components; means for selectively providing select ones of said modulation transmitter output signal components to one or more of said transmit signals, wherein said selectively providing means includes a plurality of independently operable switching means, wherein each of said plurality of independently operable switching means is assigned to a particular channel of said plurality of channels; and means for adaptively altering an attribute of ones of said signal components prior to providing to said transmit signals, wherein a size of a beam of said plurality of variable size beams is at least in part defined as a function of a relative difference of said attribute of said signal components as provided to said transmit signals.