Patent ID: 6947473

Claim:
A receiver for recovering data for at least one of a plurality of users from radio signals associated with the plurality of users, the receiver comprising: data detectors, each of the data detectors being associated with one of a plurality of temporal displacements of communications paths through which the radio signals pass, each of the data detectors to estimate a user data symbol for one of the plurality of users from at least one of the radio signals; a signal strength estimator to estimate signal strengths of the radio signals; and a receiver controller to assign user codes and temporal displacements to the data detectors according to the signal strengths of the radio signals, the receiver controller assigning a first user code for a first user to a first number of data detectors and a second user code for a second user to a second number of data detectors, the first number of data detectors having different temporal displacements than the second number of data detectors.