Patent ID: 7706486

Claim:
A method for site diversity combining, comprising the steps of: receiving a transmitted signal at at least two receive sites, the transmitted signal includes coded symbols; translating, at a first receive site of the at least two receive sites, sampled symbol values from the coded symbols of the transmitted signal into a stream of first soft-decision values from the transmitted signal, the first soft-decision values being first log likelihood ratio values; translating, at at least one other receive site of the at least two receive sites, sampled symbol values from the coded symbols of the transmitted signal into a stream of second soft-decision values from the transmitted signal, wherein the second soft-decision values are second log likelihood ratio values; connecting to the at least one other receive site of the at least two receive sites that provides data for the stream of second soft-decision values from the transmitted signal; digitally synchronizing the stream of first soft-decision values and the stream of second soft-decision values; and combining the first soft-decision values and the second soft-decision values into combined soft-decision values for each coded symbol of the transmitted signal.