Patent ID: 8462839

Claim:
A method for equalizing received signals, the method comprising: (a) equalizing a first set of one or more received signals based on at least one pilot channel in the received signals to generate a first set of one or more equalized signals; (b) processing the first set of one or more equalized signals to generate a first set of one or more decoded data streams corresponding to a first set of one or more non-pilot channels in the received signals; (c) generating one or more reference signals from the first set of one or more decoded data streams; and (d) equalizing a second set of one or more received signals based on a combination of (1) the at least one pilot channel and (2) the one or more reference signals to generate a second set of one or more equalized signals, wherein: at least one of steps (a)-(d) is implemented in a receiver and step (d) comprises filtering the second set of one or more received signals based on a second set of filter coefficients, wherein the second set of filter coefficients is adaptively generated by: (1) calculating an error signal by comparing the second set of one or more equalized signals to both (i) the at least one pilot channel and (ii) the one or more reference signals; and (2) updating the second set of filter coefficients based on the error signal.