Patent ID: 8797948

Claim:
A method of calibrating an implicit beamforming wireless system wherein the implicit wireless system comprises a beamformer and a beamformee, the method comprising: associating the beamformer with the beamformee; sending a sounding packet from the beamformer to the beamformee; receiving a sounding response at the beamformer, wherein the sounding response contains explicit steering matrix information as estimated by beamformee; computing implicit steering matrix information at the beamformer based on transmissions from the beamformee; passing explicit and implicit steering matrix information into the beamformer; computing a set of transmit and receive compensation parameters, wherein the transmit and receive compensation parameters match an implicit steering matrix with an explicit steering matrix; and loading the set of transmit and receive compensation parameters into the beamformer thereby enabling the beamformer to implicitly beamform to a device that does not support explicit beamforming.