Patent ID: 7656937
Filing Date: 2010-02-02
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A method of processing an incident signal within a “Rake” receiver having several fingers, comprising: reception of the incident signal formed of symbols emanating from at least one multi-path transmission channel, each path of which conveys a delayed version of the incident signal; detection of the paths and formulation of a configuration comprising an allocation of fingers to the paths with an indication of a last finger for the configuration, wherein each finger having an output, and wherein each configuration is a selective coupling of the output of one or more fingers to be summed as a combination of the information output from such fingers; and combination of the information delivered as output from each finger of the configuration, wherein, in the presence of an indication of change of configuration from a present configuration to a new configuration, continue performing the combination by using the present configuration and, only when all the fingers of the new configuration have delivered information, as indicated by the presence of information at the output of each finger of the new configuration, the combination is performed by using the new configuration.