Patent ID: 8798214

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a plurality of processors including a plurality of finger processors, the plurality of processors configured to: obtain a plurality of multipaths for a transmission from at least one base station, wherein each of the plurality of multipaths is associated with a corresponding performance metric value, perform a selection of a set of multipaths from the plurality of multipaths, wherein each multipath in the set is selected based on a ranked order of multipaths included in the plurality of multipaths, wherein the ranked order is determined according to the corresponding performance metric values, and wherein the selection is based on a combined performance metric value of multipaths included in the set of multipaths exceeding a first threshold, enable a subset of the plurality of finger processors to process the set of multipaths, and process data associated with the set of multipaths using the subset of the plurality of finger processors to recover the transmission from the at least one base station; and a memory coupled to the plurality of processors.