Patent ID: 8022885

Claim:
A system for re-aligning an antenna communicating signals point-to-point, said system comprising: a first antenna with at least four antenna elements positioned in different respective quadrants to receive a communications signal in each of the respective quadrants; a second antenna configured to communicate a communications signal with said first antenna using point-to-point communications; a position controller coupled to said first antenna including a processing unit configured to receive digital data associated with the communications signals received by each of the at least four antenna elements and determine signal strength of each respective communications signal, the position controller: configured to re-align said first antenna with respect to said second antenna in response to determining a misalignment of said first antenna by determining an offset angle from boresight, and further configured to re-align said first antenna with respect to said second antenna based on the signal strength of each respective communications signal and by using difference and summation functions with the signal strengths of each respective communications signal to determine an offset distance.