Patent ID: 8432938

Claim:
A method of transmitting video information from a sender to a receiver over a wireless channel, comprising: inputting video information bits at the sender; packetizing the video information bits into multiple data packets; appending beamtracking information to a last data packet of the multiple data packets, wherein the beamtracking information comprises information for tuning beamforming parameters at both the sender and the receiver in order to maintain continuous optimization of directional beams from the sender to the receiver over a high-rate data channel; transmitting the multiple data packets in a burst sequence from the sender to the receiver over the wireless channel in a first time frame, wherein transmission of each data packet is separated from transmission of the next data packet by an inter-frame time period which is shortened by a channel switching duration comprising a time period including time for channel switching from the high-rate data channel to a low-rate control channel and associated processing delays; and retransmitting selected video information bits from the sender to the receiver in a second time frame.