Patent ID: 8576804

Claim:
A method for execution by a first wireless communication device, the method comprising: employing a first one or more antennae to receive a sounding frame transmitted from a second wireless communication device via a communication channel using a first one or more clusters; processing the sounding frame to determine a beamforming feedback frame type; generating a beamforming feedback frame having the determined beamforming feedback frame type, indicating the first wireless communication device, and indicating characteristics of the communication channel corresponding to: a second one or more clusters being reported within the beamforming feedback frame; and a correspondence between the second one or more clusters and a second one or more antennae being reported within the beamforming feedback frame, such that each of the first one or more clusters and the second one or more clusters being a respective mapping of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) tones within a corresponding at least one channel among a corresponding at least one frequency band; the second wireless communication device receiving the beamforming feedback frame from the first wireless communication device, determining a beamforming parameter based on the beamforming feedback frame, and transmitting a multi-user packet to the first wireless communication device based on the beamforming parameter.