Patent ID: 7522559

Claim:
A method for receiving communications in time frames comprised of a plurality of time slots, said time slots having data signals for a plurality of channels, comprising; detecting midambles, by a blind code detector, to provide a set of channelization codes and associated midamble shifts for a candidate code list, wherein a beacon midamble is entered into the candidate code list with its associated channelization code, channel response offset and spread factor when the beacon midamble is detected, and a flag is set for a beacon code to prevent the beacon code from being rejected; identifying own-UE candidate codes and associated parameters; and identifying other-UE candidate codes and associated parameters; and comparing the identified own-UE and other-UE candidate codes with respective thresholds and rejecting own-UE candidate codes when an energy of the own-UE candidate code is less than a given threshold and accepting only those own-UE and other UE candidate codes that exceed their respective thresholds.