Patent ID: 7340014

Claim:
A method comprising: grouping symbols of two or more received multipath components of a received baseband signal in two or more groups to detect a desired symbol, wherein, the grouping is based on a delay spread between the two or more components, wherein grouping symbols comprises grouping symbols within a first delay spread range in a first group, and grouping symbols within a second delay spread range in a second group; and processing said desired symbol in the two or more groups of symbols of the multipath components by positioning two or more processing windows around the desired symbol within the two or more groups, respectively, wherein processing said desired symbol comprises: fragmenting the desired symbol into at least first and second fragments, adaptively positioning the first processing window to encompass the first fragment and the second processing window to encompass the second fragment, applying first and second processing windows to the first and second groups, respectively, and combining soft outputs of the first and second processing windows into a desired output related to a detected symbol.