Patent ID: 7526016

Claim:
A method for providing wireless communications in a cellular phone, comprising: (a) receiving a synchronization pattern, the received synchronization pattern comprising a first portion and a second portion, the first portion and the second portion comprising a plurality of symbols; (b) sampling each symbol of the first portion N times in which N is an integer greater than one; (c) storing the N samples of each symbol of the first portion in a respective symbol storage location, each symbol storage location being operatively coupled to a corresponding comparator; (d) storing an output of each comparator in a respective corrected symbol storage location, the output of each comparator providing a DC corrected symbol, each DC corrected symbol comprising N samples; and (e) correlating the stored DC corrected symbols with a known synchronization pattern stored in the cellular phone, wherein the first sample of the N samples for each stored DC corrected symbol is sent to a first correlator, wherein the second sample of the N samples for each of the stored DC corrected symbols is sent to a second correlator, and wherein the first correlator and the second correlator are operatively coupled to a peak identifier.