Patent ID: 8018906

Claim:
A method for interleaving symbols in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a data signal for a plurality of cells in a plurality of channels, the data signal being spread using a plurality of codes applied to a plurality of interleaved symbols for the plurality of cells; despreading the data signal at a plurality of correlators at a constant symbol rate, each correlator using a code in the plurality of codes associated with it to despread the data signal; enabling an accumulation of the despread data for the plurality of correlators at different times to determine data for the plurality of cells, wherein enabling the accumulation at different times is determined based on an interleave factor used to interleave symbols for cells in the received data signal; and determining the data for the plurality of cells at each correlator, each correlator corresponding to a channel and outputting data for a cell in the plurality of cells.