Patent ID: 7966043

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving at a plurality of antennas of a first wireless station a first plurality of signals transmitted from only a first antenna of a second wireless station; at the first wireless station, deriving from the first plurality of signals a second plurality of signals representative of signals transmitted only by a second antenna of the second wireless station; computing first and second beamforming weighting vectors with respect to the first and second antennas, respectively, of the second wireless station, based on the first plurality of signals and second plurality of signals; applying the first and second beamforming weighting vectors to signals to be transmitted via the plurality of antennas of the first wireless station to the second wireless station thereby creating a beamformed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel between the first and second wireless stations; and allocating transmitting power to the signals beamformed by the first and second beamforming weight vectors.