Patent ID: 7359342

Claim:
A CDMA receiver, comprising: a path search section for receiving signals from a plurality of base stations, and specifying finger allocation according to delay profiles of respective branch signals received from the plural base stations; a plurality of fingers which are allocated to the branch signals based on the finger allocation specified by the path search section; and a rake receiving section for maximal-ratio-combining the power of a plurality of signals obtained from the fingers, which have been distributed due to their respective delays; wherein the path search section includes a path management section to search for paths in response to the branch signals, and stores detected path information in a detected path table storing area in a memory; and wherein the number of paths which the path management section searches for is changed according to the number of received branch signals, wherein the number of paths which the path management section searches for with respect to each branch signal is found out by adding the number of candidate paths for path switching to a value obtained by dividing the number of the fingers by the number of the received branch signals.