Patent ID: 8073067

Claim:
A user equipment (UE) comprising: a plurality of receiving antennas configured to receive signals, wherein the received signals are multi-path components; a plurality of demodulating devices, respectively connected to the plurality of receiving antennas, configured to demodulate the received signals; a plurality of sampling devices, respectively connected to the plurality of demodulating devices, each of the sampling devices configured to sample a version of the received signals as received by one of the plurality of receiving antennas to produce a combined received signal; a channel estimation device, connected to the plurality of sampling devices, configured to determine a channel response for the plurality of the receiving antennas to produce an overall channel response; a multiple input multiple output MIMO channel equalization device, connected to the plurality of sampling devices and the channel estimation device, the MIMO channel equalization device configured to: process a block-column of the overall channel response to produce a diagonal matrix; produce a block Fourier transform of the combined received signals; produce a Fourier transform of a spread data vector using the diagonal matrix and the Fourier transform of the combined received signals; and perform an inverse block Fourier transform of the spread data vector; and a despreading device configured to despread the spread data vector to recover data from the received signals.