Patent ID: 6944142

Claim:
A mobile wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) configured for wireless communication with a network system having a plurality of base stations where the WTRU receives communication data that is selectively encoded and transmitted in predefined time frames, comprising: a joint detector receiver configured to receive and process multiple wireless signals in each of a series of time frames, each signal received within a common timeslot having a unique channel encoding of the same communication data, including: a plurality of channel estimators, each configured to produce a channel estimate of a respective received signal within a common timeslot based on the unique encoding of the received signal; a combiner configured to receive channel estimates from all of the channel estimators and combine the channel estimates for each data signal received in a common timeslot into a combined data signal, whereby the communication data common to the plurality of signals received in the common timeslot is then derived from the combined signal.