Patent ID: 8633855

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an antenna; and a beamform controller configured to determine a plurality of beamforming vectors to control the antenna, wherein the antenna is to transmit over a wireless network, and wherein the plurality of beamforming vectors are determined to assign each of a plurality of narrow-band beams, broadcast from the antenna, to a different frequency band of the wireless network, wherein the beamform controller is further configured to determine the plurality of beamforming vectors such that each of the plurality of narrow-band beams from the antenna has a different angular direction from each other of the plurality of narrow-band beams, and wherein the plurality of narrow-band beams are distributed over a beamspace to form a pseudo-omni-directional beam pattern when broadcast from the antenna, and wherein the beamform controller is further configured to simultaneously broadcast the plurality of narrow-band beams in a time-varying manner such that the angular direction of each of the plurality of narrow-band beams varies with time.