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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2010
Applicants:
Liwen Chu, San Ramon, CA (US);
George A. Vlantis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vincenzo Scarpa, Lecce, IT;
Inventors:
Assignees:
STMicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX (US);
STMicroelectronics Srl, Agrate Brianza (MI), IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Contention based period beamforming includes the establishment of synchronized communications between a beamforming initiator and a beamforming responder to precisely define a start time for beamforming training. Synchronization between the beamforming initiator and beamforming responder begins with the sending of control information to the responder so that the start of the beamforming process will be synchronized. With beamforming training synchronized, beamforming is initiated using the sector sweep process.