Patent ID: 7684526

Claim:
A method for operating a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver comprising: for a first diversity path of the RF receiver, receiving a first time domain signal that includes first time domain training symbols and first time domain data symbols, processing the first time domain training symbols to produce a first time domain channel estimate, and convening the first time domain channel estimate to the frequency domain to produce a first frequency domain channel estimate; for a second diversity path of the RF receiver, receiving a second time domain signal that includes second time domain training symbols and second time domain data symbols, processing the second time domain training symbols to produce a second time domain channel estimate, and convening the second time domain channel estimate to the frequency domain to produce a second frequency domain channel estimate; producing first frequency domain equalizer coefficients and second frequency domain equalizer coefficients based upon the first frequency domain channel estimate and the second frequency domain channel estimate; convening the first frequency domain equalizer coefficients to the time domain to produce first time domain equalizer coefficients; convening the second frequency domain equalizer coefficients to the time domain to produce second time domain equalizer coefficients; equalizing the first time domain data symbols using the first time domain equalizer coefficients; and equalizing the second time domain data symbols using the second time domain equalizer coefficients; wherein: processing the first time domain training symbols to produce a first time domain channel estimate, and converting the first time domain channel estimate to the frequency domain to produce a first frequency domain channel estimate includes: cluster path processing the first time domain training symbols; producing the first time domain channel estimate based upon the cluster path processed first time domain training symbols; and Fast Fourier Transforming the first time domain channel estimate to produce the first frequency domain channel estimate; and processing the second time domain training symbols to produce a second time domain channel estimate, and convening the second time domain channel estimate to the frequency domain to produce a second frequency domain channel estimate includes: cluster path processing the second time domain training symbols; producing the second time domain channel estimate based upon the cluster path processed second time domain training symbols; and Fast Fourier Transforming the second time domain channel estimate to produce the second frequency domain channel estimate.