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US 7,460,082 B2Granted
Sectored antenna systems for WLAN
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsQinghua Li, Xintian E. Lin
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Abstract
An access point may use two omni-directional antennas or one omni-directional antenna and multiple sectored antennas in a communications network. The mobile stations may use sectored antennas. The omni-directional antennas may include two or more sectored antennas.
Claims12
A communications network, comprising:
- a mobile device having at least two omni-directional antennas, where a first omni-directional antenna is formed by a combination of multiple sectored antennas and the at least two omni-directional antennas use different tones.
A receiver system of an access point, comprising:
- two omni-directional antennas coupled to a receiver of the access point, where at least one of the two omni-directional antennas is a combination of two complimentary placed sectored antennas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.