Patent ID: 7688915

Claim:
A method for blindly detecting an eventual channel intended for a designated user equipment among n channels received by the designated user equipment during a given duration, each channel received during the duration carrying encoded data masked with an identifier associated to a user equipment, comprising a selecting phase comprising: demasking the received masked encoded data of each channel with the identifier of said designated user equipment; decoding the demasked encoded data of each channel to obtain a set of digital decoded data for each channel; calculating, from each set of digital decoded data, a global confidence information representative of a confidence in digital data received on the corresponding channel; and detecting said eventual channel from said n global confidence information; wherein detecting comprises detecting a maximum global confidence among said n global confidence information, and validating said maximum global confidence information based upon a threshold, including calculating (Max 1 -Max 2 )/Max 1 , wherein Max 1 is a greatest global confidence information and Max 2 is a second greatest global confidence information, comparing the value (Max 1 -Max 2 )/Max 1 with said threshold, and choosing the eventual channel having the global confidence information equal to Max 1 if said value (Max 1 -Max 2 )/Max 1 is greater than or equal to said threshold.