Patent ID: 8126031

Claim:
A rake receiver, comprising: a plurality of receive antennas, each receive antenna having a plurality of demodulation elements; and a processing system configured to: assign the plurality of demodulation elements from the plurality of receive antennas to a multipath group; assign the multipath group to a multipath signal; independently adjust a time delay value of each of the plurality of demodulation elements in the multipath group to correspond to a local time delay of the multipath signal at the corresponding receive antenna; compare time delay values of at least two of the plurality of demodulation elements in the multipath group to determine if a difference between the time delay values exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein the difference between the time delay values is increasing; and in response to the determining, adjust the time delay value for one of the at least two of the plurality of demodulation elements so that the difference is less than the predetermined threshold.