Patent ID: 8908611

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a multicast data transmission comprising a transmission by a first base station and a transmission by at least a second base station and a plurality of different pilot sequences transmitted from the base stations, wherein a different one of the pilot sequence is transmitted from each of the base stations; receiving a unicast data transmission from the first base station; calculating a plurality of radio channel estimates wherein each of the plurality of radio channel estimates is calculated for a radio channel for a portion of a transmission, contributed by one of the base stations to the multicast data transmission, and wherein the radio channel estimate for a base station is calculated from the pilot sequence received from that base station; equalizing the received multicast data transmission by utilizing the calculated plurality of radio channel estimates; and equalizing the received unicast data transmission from the radio channel estimate utilizing the pilot sequence transmission by the first base station, wherein the pilot sequence transmission by the first base station is the same pilot sequence used in calculating the radio channel estimate for transmission of the multicast data transmission from the first base station; combining the plurality of radio channel estimates; wherein equalizing the received multicast data transmission comprises equalizing the received multicast data transmission with weights calculated from the combined radio channel estimates by multiplying frequency components of the received multicast data transmission with a component of the combined radio channel estimates.