Patent ID: 7965762

Claim:
A remote terminal comprising: a first set of finger processors assigned to process signals from a first set of one or more base stations in active communication with the remote terminal and configured to determine a time of arrival of at least one signal from the first set of one or more base stations; a second set of finger processors assigned to process signals from a second set of one or more base stations not in active communication with the remote terminal and configured to determine a time of arrival of each of the signals from the second set of one or more base stations; a combiner selectably configurable to combine processed signals from the first set of finger processors and omit processed signals from the second set of finger processors; and a searcher finger configured to determine a relative time of arrival of signals from each base station in the second set of one or more base stations; wherein each of the second set of finger processors is configured to process an earliest multipath signal from a distinct one of the second set of one or more base stations.