Patent ID: 8315154

Claim:
A method, comprising: detecting, by a multiple-link station, degradation of both a first link and a second link, wherein the first link is between the multiple-link station and a first station, wherein further the second link is between the multiple-link station and a second station, wherein further the first and second links comprise beam-formed links of a wireless network; transmitting, by the multiple-link station in response to the detecting degradation of the first and second links, a plurality of frames of a forward sweep to the plurality of sectors, wherein each frame of the plurality of frames of the forward sweep comprises a destination address of the first station and a destination address of the second station; and transmitting, by the multiple-link station, a first feedback frame to the first station and a second feedback frame to the second station, wherein the first feedback frame is in response to transmission of a first number of frames of reverse sweeping by the first station, wherein the second feedback frame is in response to transmission of a second number of frames of reverse sweeping by the second station, wherein transmission of the first number and the second number of frames of reverse sweeping are transmitted based on an order of destination addresses in the plurality of frames of the forward sweep in response to the plurality of frames of the forward sweep.