Patent ID: 8090336

Claim:
A method of communicating between a remote transmitting station and a receive antenna having at least two sub-arrays, the method comprising: a. receiving a signal transmitted by the remote transmitting station with the at least two of the antenna sub-arrays, so that each of the at least two sub-arrays forms an output signal corresponding to the received signal; b. designating the output of one of the at least two sub-arrays as a reference output signal; c. forming a collection of composite output signals by combining the reference output signal with permutations of output signals from the other of the at least two sub-arrays and their output signals having an added time delay; d. selecting a composite output signal from the collection; e. calculating time offsets between the selected composite output signal and the at least two sub-array output signals; f. selecting the output signal from the sub-array having received the signal last and adding a time adjustment to the output signals associated with other sub-arrays so that the output signals from each sub-array are synchronized; and g. combining the time adjusted output signals to create an output signal.