Patent ID: 8265047

Claim:
A method of device discovery for a wireless network including a plurality of wireless devices, the method comprising: determining, by a first wireless device in the wireless network, a direction of a second wireless device with respect to the first wireless device; determining a direction of a third wireless device in the wireless network with respect to the second wireless device; updating, by the first wireless device, a first device table with the determined direction of the second wireless device, the first device table containing a list of the wireless devices in the wireless network and directions of the wireless devices with respect to the first wireless device; and transmitting, by the first wireless device, the updated first device table over the wireless network; wherein each of the first to third wireless devices comprises an antenna including a plurality of sectors, the first device table indicates that the second wireless device is positioned in a first sector of the first wireless device, and that the third wireless device is positioned in a second sector of the first wireless device, and wherein determining the direction of the third wireless device in the wireless network with respect to the second wireless device is based on determining if the first sector is in an opposite direction to the second sector.