Patent Document ID: 20090274253
Application ID: 12114516
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for receiving a radio communication sent by a transmitter having M transmit antennas to a receiver having N receive antennas, where M is a positive integer greater than or equal to one and N is positive integer greater than one, the method comprising: receiving N output signals, one for each receive antenna, where a signal transmitted from each of M transmit antennas includes predetermined pilot symbols known by the receiver and information symbols to be determined by the receiver; determining weights for estimating each of M×N single-input/single-output channels between transmit and receive antennas based on jointly processing pilot symbols received on all of the N receive antennas; estimating the M×N single-input/single-output channels based on the determined weights; and using the estimated channels to determine the information symbols.