Patent ID: 7684516

Claim:
A method for processing a received signal in a communication device, comprising the steps of: receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal; processing the RF signal though various receiver stages characterized by a front-end having active stages to produce a received digital signal and a back-end having at least one post-processing stage; configuring the post processing stage to produce a predefined latency period in the received digital signal thereby providing a synchronous data signal; detecting all-channel signals and on-channel signals within a dynamically scalable channel estimator prior to the post-processing stage to produce at least one pulse width modulated signal; routing the pulse width modulated signal to a digital signal processor (DSP), the pulse width modulated signal path having a lower latency period than the post-processing stage; evaluating the pulse width modulated signal to predict a receive signal operating environment prior to complete processing of the received digital signal by the post-processing stage; and adjusting at least one active stage after the post-processing stage based on the predicted receive signal operating environment to optimize receiver parameters synchronized to the synchronous data signal.