Patent ID: 8180285

Claim:
A device comprises: a processing module coupled to: determine activation of the device; upon determination of activation, modulate data to produce modulated data; determine a beamforming setting in accordance with the determination of activation; and establish a transmit power setting in accordance with the determination of activation; a millimeter wave (MMW) oscillation module coupled to generate a modulated MMW signal based on the modulated data, wherein the MMW oscillation module includes a phase locked loop coupled to generate an in-phase oscillation component and a quadrature oscillation component based on a reference oscillation and the modulated data, wherein the modulated MMW signal includes the in-phase oscillation component and the quadrature oscillation component; a MMW beamforming module coupled to convert the modulated MMW signal into a plurality of MMW beamformed signals based on the beamforming setting, wherein the MMW beamforming module includes a plurality of phase adjust modules, wherein a phase adjust module includes: a first adjustable gain module coupled to adjust gain of the quadrature oscillation component based on an element of the beamforming setting to produce a first adjusted oscillation; a second adjustable gain module coupled to adjust gain of the in-phase oscillation component based on the element of the beamforming setting to produce a second adjusted oscillation; and a summing module coupled to sum the first and second adjusted oscillations to produce one of the plurality of MMW beamformed signals; and a plurality of amplifiers coupled to amplify the plurality of MMW beamformed signals in accordance with the transmit power setting to produce a MMW near field transmission.