Patent ID: 7260140

Claim:
A CDMA receiver for receiving a plurality of reception data and determining correlated value levels while shifting despreading timings for respective users to obtain optimum reception timings for the respective users, comprising: a searcher comprising: a delay profile calculator having A dedicated correlators (A is an integer of 2 or greater) allocated to each user and C shared correlators (C is an integer of 2 or greater) allocated to each user; and a correlator allocation controller for calculating the numbers (f 1 through fM) of shared correlators allocated to respective subscribing users (Y 1 through YM (M: the maximum number of subscribing users) based on said number of subscribing users and the total number (C) of shared correlators allocated to the subscribing users, and outputting data indicative of the numbers of shared correlators allocated to the respective subscribing users to said delay profile calculator.