Patent ID: 8565363

Claim:
A method comprising: processing, in a receiver, a received inter-symbol correlated (ISC) signal, said processing resulting in a processed received ISC signal; generating, via a sequence estimation process performed by said receiver, an estimate of a phase error of said processed received ISC signal; and generating an estimate of a value of a transmitted symbol corresponding to said received ISC signal based on said estimate of said phase error; wherein: said generating said estimate of said chase error comprises generating one or more phase candidate vectors; said generating said estimate of said phase error comprises calculating a metric based on said one or more phase candidate vectors; said calculating said metric comprises phase shifting said processed received ISC signal based on said estimate of said phase error, said phase shifting resulting in a phase-corrected received ISC signal; and said calculating said metric comprises calculating a Euclidean distance based on said phase-corrected received ISC signal and one or more symbol candidate vectors.