Patent ID: 8488719

Claim:
A wireless communications device comprising: a receiver; and a processor coupled to said receiver and configured to: perform a first demodulation based upon a first sampling rate of a received signal to generate a first demodulated signal and determine therefrom whether a first error value is not greater than a first threshold, and, if so then decode the first demodulated signal, if the first error value is greater than the first threshold, then perform a second demodulation based upon a second sampling rate of the received signal greater than the first sampling rate to generate a second demodulated signal and determine therefrom whether a second error value is not greater than a second threshold, and, if so, then decode the second demodulated signal, if the second error value is greater than the second threshold, then perform the second demodulation at least one additional time with at least one change thereto, and if at least one subsequent second error value for the at least one additional execution of the second demodulation is greater than the second threshold, then add pseudo-random multipath characteristics to the received signal and perform the second demodulation.