Patent ID: 7822440

Claim:
A method operating a communication station in a communicating environment; the method comprising: monitoring, by said communication station, said communicating environment to ascertain whether said communication station is receiving at least one unintended sensed signal not intended for said communication station from at least one signal source; if said communication station has not received a predetermined number of said at least one unintended sensed signal during a predetermined time interval, operating said communication station in an omni-directional mode; and if said communication station has received said predetermined number of said at least one unintended sensed signal during said predetermined time interval, saving an indication of a respective reception direction from which arrived each said respective unintended sensed signal of said at least one unintended sensed signal, and operating said communication station in a directional mode; said communication station being sensitive to receiving signals arriving from a sensing direction other than from each said respective reception direction, and said communication station transmitting signals toward said sensing direction while in said directional mode.