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System and method for acquiring a received signal in a spread spectrum device

US6580746B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 28, 2001
Grant dateJun 17, 2003
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Expiry dateJan 5, 2022

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W24/00
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A spread spectrum wireless device (100) may include a receiver (110), a searcher (128), a search controller (130) and other features. The search controller (130) selectively generates control signals to control the searcher (128), which searches for a spread-spectrum signal. In one embodiment, the architecture of the searcher (128) is dynamically configurable by the search controller (130) to selectively search multiple channels using multiple frequency bins for the signal.

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