Patent ID: 8170495

Claim:
A wireless transceiver comprising: at least one phased array antenna, that transmits an outbound RF signal containing outbound data to a remote transceiver and that receives an inbound RF signal containing inbound data from the remote transceiver, wherein the at least one phased array antenna is configurable based on a control signal; an antenna configuration controller, coupled to the at least one phased array antenna, that generates the control signal to configure the at least one phased array antenna to hop among a plurality of selected radiation patterns that are collaboratively selected by the wireless transceiver and the remote transceiver via a pairing procedure that includes collaboratively configuring the remote transceiver to a first plurality of candidate radiation patterns while configuring the at least one phased array antenna to an omnidirectional radiation pattern; and at least one RF transceiver section, coupled to the at least one phased array antenna, that generates the outbound RF signal based on the outbound data and that generates the inbound data based on the inbound RF signal.