Patent ID: 7903723

Claim:
A method of receiving digital data symbols sent from a transmitter through a transmission channel of a communications network, in which individual multi-path components of a transmitted data symbol are received with individual delays, and wherein received signals are processed by a RAKE unit having a number of fingers, the method comprising the steps of: calculating a delay profile from a set of received pilot signals; determining delay values for peaks detected in the delay profile; pre-selecting a number of peak delay values among the peak delay values determined for the delay profile, said pre-selected peak delay values representing the largest peaks detected in the delay profile; calculating for each of said pre-selected peak delay values a signal-to-interference ratio for delay values in an interval around the pre-selected peak delay value; selecting in each interval the delay value having the highest signal-to-interference ratio; and providing the selected delay values to the RAKE unit and assigning each selected delay value to a finger of the RAKE unit.