Patent ID: 8391376

Claim:
An antenna array comprising: a plurality of radiating elements, wherein each radiating element comprises a plurality of spatial points of origination configured to accept a carrier signal that is unmodulated; a control system, wherein the control system is configured to: accept a baseband data signal; accept beam steering parameters; identify a binary sequence in the baseband data signal; arrange the binary sequence as unique symbols comprising one or more bits, wherein a unique symbol comprises a modulation phase and an amplitude; determine an adjusted phase and amplitude for the unique symbol for each antenna element in the array in order to achieve the beam steering parameters; identify one or more spatial points of origination of each of the radiating elements and calculate a carrier amplitude adjustment for each of the identified one or more spatial points of origination required to produce the adjusted phase and amplitude of the unique symbol; and direct an adjusted carrier signal to the identified one or more spatial points of origination, wherein the adjusted carrier signal for each identified spatial point of origination comprises the calculated adjusted carrier amplitude for that identified spatial point of origination.