Patent ID: 8351488

Claim:
A receiver, comprising: a plurality of antennas ports each configured to receive radio signals from a plurality of transmission paths; a plurality of sets of RAKE fingers configured to generate at least one first signal, each set of RAKE fingers coupled to a respective one of the plurality of antenna ports, wherein each of the RAKE fingers of one set of RAKE fingers correspond to a respective RAKE finger of another set of RAKE fingers and to one of the plurality of transmission paths; a weighting factor generator configured to generate at least one weighting factor for weighting the at least one first signal to form second signals, wherein the at least one weighting factor is generated by using the at least one first signal generated by corresponding RAKE fingers from each set of RAKE fingers in the plurality of sets of RAKE fingers; and a signal to interference plus noise ratio estimator for corresponding RAKE fingers configured to estimate a signal to interference plus noise ratio, wherein the estimated signal to interference plus noise ratio is used by the weighting factor generator to weight the second signals.