Patent ID: 8306167

Claim:
A system for synchronizing a wireless receiver, comprising: a first antenna to receive a first wireless independent information stream comprising a first combination of a signal from a first channel and a signal from a second channel; a second antenna to receive a second wireless independent information stream comprising a second combination of a signal from a third channel and a signal from a fourth channel; one or more analyzer components operable to determine correlation metrics based on at least a portion of the first wireless independent information stream and the second wireless independent information stream; a synchronization component operable to use the correlation metrics to determine a preferred correlation metric for synchronization by the wireless receiver of the first wireless independent information stream and the second wireless independent information stream to decode a plurality of data packets transmitted through the channels; a first synchronization state machine coupled to the synchronization component to output a first synchronization signal to the wireless receiver to determine where a data field of a data packet of the first information stream begins; and a second synchronization state machine coupled to the synchronization component to output a second synchronization signal to the wireless receiver to determine where a data field of a data packet of the second information stream begins.