Patent ID: 7027539

Claim:
A method for processing N Radio Frequency (RF) bursts contained within N slots of a digital communications time divided frame, wherein N is a positive integer greater than one, the method comprising: for a first RF burst of the N RF bursts: pre-equalization processing a first baseband signal to produce a first processed baseband signal; and equalizing the first processed baseband signal to produce a first plurality of soft decisions after the pre-equalization processing of the first baseband signal is completed; for each of a second through N th RF burst: pre-equalization processing a current baseband signal to produce a current processed baseband signal while equalizing a prior processed baseband signal to produce a prior plurality of soft decisions; and equalizing the current processed baseband signal to produce a current plurality of soft decisions while post-equalization processing the prior plurality of soft decisions; and post-equalization processing the N th plurality of soft decisions.