Patent ID: 7414980

Claim:
A method for receiving a packet in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving subsets of at least one desired packet and subsets of at least one interference packet of a channel; processing at least one packet characteristic of said subsets of at least one desired packet and said subsets of at least one interference packet of a channel, said at least one packet characteristic including a time reference, a frequency reference and a power reference; determining a signal strength of each subset of said at least one desired packet; determining a power-based level of interference at each subset of said at least one desired packet; storing said at least one packet characteristic; demodulating a packet for reception; and applying metric weighting to a subset of at least one desired packet in which a subset of at least one interference packet is present based upon said time reference and frequency reference of said subset of at least one desired packet and said subset of at least one interference packet, said metric weighting based upon said at least one packet characteristic, wherein said metric weighting de-weights interference at said subset of at least one desired packet.