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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2018
Ubiquiti Inc., New York, NY (US);
John R. Sanford, Escondido, CA (US);
Sriram Dayanandan, Dublin, CA (US);
Vish Ponnampalam, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gonzalo P. Jabbaz, Taipei, TW;
Robert J. Pera, Seattle, WA (US);
Ubiquiti Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Multi-directional antenna apparatuses, which may include phased array antennas and/or arrays of multiple antennas, and methods for operating these directional antennas. In particular, described herein are apparatuses configured to operate as an access point (AP) for communicating with one or more station devices by assigning a particular directional beam to each access point, and communicating with each station device using the assigned directional beam at least part of the time. Methods and apparatuses configured to optimize the assignment of one or more directional beam and for communicating between different station devices using assigned directional beams are described. Also described are methods of connecting a radio device to an antenna by connecting a USB connector on the radio device to a USB connector on an antenna and identifying the antenna based on a voltage of the ground pin on the antenna's USB connector.