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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul W Dent, Stehags, SE;
Gregory E Bottomley, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
Ericsson GE Mobile Communications Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D / ; H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375343 ; 375350 ; 375324 ; 455213 ; 455307 ;
Abstract
Demodulation of a CDMA downlink signal is performed by filtering correlations of the received signal with a known signature sequence. Unlike the conventional RAKE receiver, the filtering is not necessarily a FIR filter with coefficients equal to the conjugates of channel tap estimates. Instead, the present invention filters in such a way as to maximize the output signal-to-noise ratio, accounting for the fact that part of the noise comes from the same base station as the signal, so that it is colored by the same channel as the signal.