Patent ID: 7031652

Claim:
A wireless local loop system for carrying at least one subscriber service between a network and a subscriber terminal via a wireless link, said system comprising: at least one base station interconnecting said network and said wireless link, said base station operable to transceive said service over said link; and a subscriber station within said wireless local loop system interconnecting said subscriber terminal and said wireless link, said subscriber station having a steerable antenna that is operable to be oriented in a direction having a desired transception-quality of said service over said link by determining an appropriate time to orient said antenna, illuminating said steerable antenna in a given orientation and measuring the transception-quality of a wireless link in said given orientation, repeating said illuminating step until a desired number of orientations have been illuminated, and orienting said antenna towards the one said orientation that has the desired transception-quality for a subscriber service transmitted over said link.