Patent ID: 6999765

Claim:
A code division multiple access (CDMA) type mobile station comprising: a radio portion for modulating a radio signal to produce a received signal and for demodulating a transmission signal into said radio signal; a receiving portion for despreading said received signal to produce received data; a transmitting portion for spreading transmission data to produce said transmission signal; a data processing portion for processing said received data and said transmission data; and a control portion for controlling operation of said radio portion, said receiving portion, said transmitting portion, and said data processing portion, said receiving portion comprising: a first receiving portion for receiving said received signal at a first chip offset to which a chip offset is temporally early rounded off to produce a first received data symbol; and a second receiving portion for receiving said received signal at a second chip offset to which the chip offset is temporally late rounded off to produce a second received data symbol, said CDMA type mobile station further comprising a combining portion, disposed between said receiving portion and said data processing portion, for combining the first received data symbol with the second data symbol to supply a combined data symbol to said data processing portion.