Patent ID: 7565173

Claim:
In a MIMO communication system, a method for allocating MIMO communication resources of a portable MIMO communication system, the method comprising: determining a first set of MIMO communication resources of a portable first MIMO communication system to utilize for communicating a first portion of a unit of information from the portable first MIMO communication system to a second MIMO communication system, where the unit of information is a quantifiable amount of related information; allocating the first set of MIMO communication resources for communicating the first portion of the unit of information; determining a second set of MIMO communication resources of the portable first MIMO communication system to utilize for communicating a second portion of the unit of information from the portable first MIMO communication system to the second MIMO communication system, at least a portion of the second set of MIMO communication resources being different from the first set of MIMO communication resources; and allocating the second set of MIMO communication resources for communicating the second portion of the unit of information.