Patent ID: 8571087

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an input configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from a communication channel; an RF front end configured to process the RF signal thereby generating a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal; and a multi-path scanner module configured to: determine fast path timing information for those of a plurality of multi-path signal components of the WCDMA signal found within a first time slot of a search window; determine timing information for those of the plurality of multi-path signal components of the WCDMA signal found within a second time slot of the search window; determine long term timing information for the plurality of multi-path signal components of the WCDMA signal based upon at least the determined fast path timing information and the determined timing information; determine at least one additional fast path timing information for those of at least one additional plurality of multi-path signal components of the WCDMA signal found within a third time slot of at least one additional search window; and determine at least one additional timing information for those of the at least one additional plurality of multi-path signal components of the WCDMA signal found within a fourth time slot of the at least one additional search window.