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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2000
Applicants:
Paul Petrus, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Antoine Chemali, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Depierre, Paris, FR;
Louis C. Yun, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Paul Petrus, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Antoine Chemali, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Depierre, Paris, FR;
Louis C. Yun, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
ArrayComm, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 138 ; H04M 100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A downlink beamforming apparatus and method. In one embodiment, a method in accordance with the teachings of the present invention includes receiving uplink communication signals from a plurality of antenna array elements, selecting an operating condition of an environment and estimating downlink beamforming weights used in downlink communication signals in response to the selected operation condition of the environment.