Patent ID: 7499428

Claim:
A method of signal reception, said method comprising: during a first time slot, receiving a first burst of data over a first frequency band; during a second time slot after the first time slot, receiving a second burst of data over the first frequency band; between the first and second time slots, sampling a signal received over a second frequency band and storing the samples; powering down at least a portion of an Radio Frequency (RF) receiving circuit for at least a portion of an interval between the first and second time slots; and based on the samples, calculating a received signal quality value during at least the portion of the interval between the first and second time slots during which the RF receiving circuit is powered down by correlating at least a portion of the samples with at least a portion of a scrambling code, wherein the first burst of data is a burst of a paging block, and wherein the second burst of data is a burst of the paging block that is consecutive to the first burst; wherein the signal received over the second frequency band has a code period, and wherein a duration of said sampling is not greater than twenty-five percent of the code period.