Patent ID: 7630457

Claim:
A method, in a receiver, for demodulating a modulated symbol, the method comprising: receiving, in a correlator, the modulated symbol; the correlator generating a plurality of correlation values from the received modulated signal and providing the plurality of correlation values to a phase-assisted demodulator; the phase-assisted demodulator selecting at least two of the plurality of correlation values based on magnitude information of the plurality of correlation values; the phase-assisted demodulator selecting one of the at least two of the plurality of correlation values based on at least one of magnitude information or phase information of the at least two plurality of correlation values and providing the selected one of the at least two of the plurality of correlation values to a slicer, wherein selecting the one of the at least two of the plurality of correlation values comprises: when the at least two of the plurality of correlation values are within a predetermined range of each other, selecting the one of the at least two of the plurality of correlation values based on relative phase information of the at least two of the plurality of correlation values; and the slicer using the selected one of the at least two of the plurality of correlation values and a corresponding index of the selected one of the at least two of the plurality of correlation values to provide a demodulated symbol corresponding to the received modulated symbol at an output of the receiver.