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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2001
Mark D. Reudink, Seattle, WA (US);
Vectrad Networks Corp., Bothell, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method providing narrow antenna beam polarity and/or angular diversity for subscriber stations in a point-to-multipoint RF data transmission system employs a subscriber multibeam antenna. Coangular pairs of antenna beams have orthogonal polarity and each pair is angularly diverse. The subscriber transceiver uses a plurality of inputs and at least one output. Polarization diversity for a subscriber is provided by employing one of the coangular pairs of antenna beams to receive corresponding polarization diverse signals from a hub. Angular diversity is provided by receiving transmissions on two angularly diverse beams from two hubs. At a hub the bit error rate of transmissions from a subscriber and/or signal levels of available frequencies with different polarizations are monitored and the optimal beam, frequency and polarization for transmissions from the subscriber are determined. Changes in frequency, beam or polarization for transmissions to the hub are communicated to the subscriber.