Patent ID: 8018985

Claim:
A method of receiving Golden encoded CDMA wireless communication signals, comprising: receiving, at two receive antennas, signals comprising Golden encoded symbols transmitted from first and second transmit antennas; despreading the received signals to produce despread values in first and second symbol periods; formulating combining weights based on impairment correlation across G-Rake fingers and channel coefficients corresponding to the first transmit antenna and the second transmit antenna; producing a first set of combined values using the combining weights determined by impairment correlation and channel coefficients corresponding to the first transmit antenna to combine the despread values from the first symbol period to produce a first combined value and to combine the despread values from the second symbol period to produce a second combined value; producing a second set of combined values using the combining weights determined by impairment correlation and channel coefficients corresponding to the second transmit antenna to combine the despread values from the first symbol period to produce a third combined value and to combine the despread values from the second symbol period to produce a fourth combined value; processing the first, second, third, and fourth combined values using coefficients derived from the Golden number to generate a set of decision variables; and jointly detecting the Golden encoded symbols from the set of decision variables.