Patent ID: 8218517

Claim:
A method for processing signals in a wireless communication device of a communication system, the wireless communication device having processing circuitry and a memory coupled to said processing circuitry, the method comprising: processing, during a compressed frame, first received WCDMA signals having a first frequency band and second received WCDMA signals having a second frequency band by said processing circuitry and said memory, wherein said processing of said first received WCDMA signals and said second received WCDMA signals comprises: sampling said first received WCDMA signals and second received WCDMA signals; storing samples of said first received WCDMA signals and said second received WCDMA signals in different portions of said memory; and feeding back said stored samples to said processing circuitry during said processing of said first received WCDMA signals and said second received WCDMA signals; and processing, during a non-compressed frame, third received WCDMA signals having said first frequency band by said processing circuitry and said memory, including sampling said third received WCDMA signals, wherein said sampling of said third received WCDMA signals during said non-compressed frame is performed at a faster rate than said sampling of said first received WCDMA signals and second received WCDMA signals during said compressed frame.