Patent ID: 7046653

Claim:
A diversity reception process comprising: receiving at least two diversity radio signals each being composed of at least one component, and each component containing a sequence of data units which are subject to intermittent errors from one to E data units in duration wherein E is the largest number of consecutive errors that can occur on a given digital radio design; demodulating the received diversity signals into streams of corresponding data units and their baseband signal deviation (SD) levels; comparing corresponding data units to identify at least one data unit in the at least two diversity radio signals which differ; when no difference in at least one corresponding data unit is identified outputting one of the at least two sequences of corresponding data units; and when at least one difference in at least one data unit of corresponding data units is identified processing the baseband signal deviation (SD) levels of all data units within the at least one difference of the sequence of corresponding data units to output each data unit within each difference having the highest probability of not containing an error.