Patent ID: 7602840

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a plurality of first gated pilot signals from a plurality of first base stations, each first gated pilot signal comprising a bit sequence from a first coset; receiving a plurality of second gated pilot signals from a plurality of second base stations, each second gated pilot signal comprising a bit sequence from a second coset, the second coset comprising different bit sequences than the first coset, each of the bit sequences from the first and second cosets comprises a pseudo-noise code; searching for at least one first gated pilot signal at a subscriber station, and deriving timing information from the search for the at least one first gated pilot signal; searching for at least one second gated pilot signal at the subscriber station using the timing information; and establishing a communications channel between the subscriber station and one of the first and second base stations based on the search for the first and second gated pilot signals; wherein deriving timing information from the search for the at least one first gated pilot signal comprises: segmenting an output from the search for the at least one first gated pilot signal; overlaying segments of the output; and determining a pilot signal window around a gated pilot signal found during the search for the at least one first gated pilot signal.