Patent ID: 8412096

Claim:
A wireless device, comprising: a phased antenna array; a transceiver communicatively coupled to the phased antenna array; and an antenna control module communicatively coupled to the transceiver and the phased antenna array, the antenna control module operative to: initiate beam formation operations using an iterative training scheme to form a pair of communications channels for a wireless network wherein the pair of communication channels includes a high rate physical (HRP) channel and a low rate physical (LRP) channel, the establishment of the HRP channel includes; sending training signals to a peer device over the HRP channel and receiving feedback information from the peer device over the LRP channel; determining antenna-array weight vectors (AWV) for a directional transmit beam pattern for a phase antenna array based on the feedback information; receive training signals from the peer device over the HRP channel; and send feedback information to the peer device over the HRP channel.