Patent ID: 7203179

Claim:
A method for use in a CDMA receiver of the type in which a CDMA signal, including at each of a number of time slots data and a pilot signal modulated together by a spread-spectrum process, is despread by a RAKE receiver to generate a data portion and a pilot portion for each slot, the method receiving an output of the RAKE, the output of the RAKE including first data which represents the data portions, the method using the first data to extract second data which has fewer bits than the first data and which represents the data portions, the method including a first normalization process having the steps of: using the pilot portions to derive a data normalization position and a normalization value; using the normalization position to extract third data from the first data, the third data having fewer bits than the first data; adjusting the third data using the normalization value to obtain fourth data; and extracting the second data from the fourth data, the second data having fewer bits than the fourth data.