Patent ID: 7924909

Claim:
A method of reducing interference caused by sample time errors in signals received by a multi-branch wireless receiver comprising: receiving a first received signal at a first branch of the multi-branch wireless receiver; receiving a second received signal at a second branch of the multi-branch wireless receiver; periodically sampling the first received signal at a first sample time to generate a first sample stream by generating the first sample time from a clock signal by identifying an even element of the clock signal as the first sample time; periodically sampling the second received signal at a second sample time by offsetting the first sample time by a predetermined time offset to generate a second sample stream comprising an odd element of the clock signal and offset from the first sample stream, wherein the predetermined time offset is T s /m where T s represents a sampling period and m represents the number of branches in the multi-branch receiver; and combining the offset sample streams from the first and second branches to reduce multi-user interference.