Patent Document ID: 20040127257
Application ID: 10334045
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. In a communication system having a first communication station, a second communication station, and at least a third communication station, the first communication station and the third communication station selectably together for communicating a communication signal to the second communication station, the communication signal weighted at a first weighting element of the first communication station by a first antenna weight, the communication signal weighted at least at a second weighting element of the first communication station with at least a second antenna weight, and the communication signal selectably weighted at least at a third weighting element of the third communication station, an improvement of apparatus for facilitating optimization of selection of the first, second, and at least third antenna weights, separately, said apparatus comprising: a perturbation vector selector coupled to the first communication station and to the third communication station, said perturbation vector selector for selecting at least a first set of perturbation vector values to form at least a first selected perturbation vector; and a perturbation vector applicator coupled to said perturbation vector selector, said perturbation vector applicator for selecting application of the perturbation values forming the at least the first selected perturbation vector to the first and at least second weighting elements of the first communication station and selectably further for selecting application of the perturbation values forming the at least the first perturbation vector to the third antenna weighting element, the perturbation values applied to the first, second, and, selectably, at least third weighting element at least in part determinative of the first and at least second antenna weights.