Patent ID: 7948956

Claim:
A Wireless Access Point (WAP) within a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) infrastructure that services a plurality of wireless terminals, the WAP comprising: a processor; a first radio communicatively coupled to the processor that supports communications with the plurality of wireless terminals; a directional antenna coupled to the first radio having an antenna gain pattern that is controlled by the processor; a second radio communicatively coupled to the processor that listens to, but does not participate in transmissions of at least some of the plurality of wireless terminals, gathers non-participatory WAP data, and provides the non-participatory WAP data to the processor; an antenna coupled to the second radio; wherein, the processor receives the non-participatory WAP data from the second radio, creates WAP operational reports based there upon, and provides the WAP operational reports to the WLAN; and wherein, based upon directions received from the WLAN in response to the WAP operational reports, the processor alters the gain pattern of the directional antenna.