Patent ID: 8855183

Claim:
A method of wireless communication, comprising: determining an initial covariance matrix of a first data path and a second data path; determining a conditioned covariance matrix of the first data path and the second data path based on a first gain of the first data path and a second gain of the second data path by adding a conditioning parameter to a first diagonal of the initial covariance matrix and adding the conditioning parameter times a relative gain factor to a second diagonal of the initial covariance matrix, the first diagonal corresponding to a lesser gain data path and the second diagonal corresponding to a greater gain data path, the first gain being independent of the second gain; determining equalizer taps of the first data path and the second data path based on the conditioned covariance matrix; equalizing the first data path and the second data path with equalizer taps of the first data path and the second data path; and generating an equalized signal by combining the equalized first data path with the equalized second data path.