Patent ID: 8184601

Claim:
A method for radio communication in a wireless local area network consisting of a multitude of transceiving devices capable of operating in a peer-to-peer mode wherein the method comprises: (a) designating a temporary coordinator transceiver of the wireless local area network of a plurality of transceivers of the wireless local area network; (b) switching-over all of the other plurality of transceivers of the wireless local area network into a mode of a client of the wireless local area network, wherein a transceiver in a mode of a client is a client-transceiver; (c) orienting an antenna beam of each client transceiver of the plurality of transceivers of the wireless local area network in the direction of the temporary coordinator transceiver of the wireless local area network, each of the plurality of transceivers comprising a direction-agile antenna. (d) transmitting a transmission-permitting signal from the temporary coordinator transceiver of the wireless local area network to at least one of the client transceivers of the plurality of transceivers of the wireless local area network; (e) transmitting the information by the at least one of the client transceivers of the plurality of transceivers of the wireless local area network that permission has been granted to transmit from the temporary coordinator transceiver to an addressee; wherein each of the plurality of transceivers comprises an antenna unit comprising a plurality of direction-agile antennas, a directional pattern switchover unit for controlling the directional pattern of each of the plurality of direction-agile antennas, a reception/transmission mode switch for switching from a transmission mode to a reception mode, a receiver, a transmitter, and a controller, wherein the reception/transmission mode switch comprises an input/output port, an output port connected to the receiver, and an input port connected to the transmitter, wherein the input/output port is connected to a single direction-agile antenna of the plurality of direction-agile antennas and the output port when the transceiver is a client transceiver, and the input/output port is connected to all of the plurality of direction-agile antennas and the input port when the transceiver is the temporary coordinator transceiver.