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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
May. 23, 2006
John S. Chen, Downingtown, PA (US);
Inhyok Cha, Yardley, PA (US);
Richard Simeon, Spring City, PA (US);
Daniel P. Steinbach, Yardley, PA (US);
John S. Chen, Downingtown, PA (US);
Inhyok Cha, Yardley, PA (US);
Richard Simeon, Spring City, PA (US);
Daniel P. Steinbach, Yardley, PA (US);
InterDigital Technology Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A communications device operates in a wireless local area network (WLAN), and includes a processor operating in accordance with an operating system that includes a standardized set of object identifiers (OIDs) associated therewith. An antenna steering algorithm is executed by the processor for generating a driver query. A driver generates an antenna query in response to the driver query. A smart antenna is driven by the driver and generates antenna beams for receiving signals, and generates metrics based upon the received signals. The smart antenna provides to the driver a metric associated with the antenna query. The driver associates the metric received from the smart antenna with one of the object identifiers from the standardized set of object identifiers, and provides the same to the antenna steering algorithm.