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Time shared rake fingers and path searcher

US8125973B2 · kind B2 · utility

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10Claims

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Assignee

MEDIATEK INC. · TW

Inventors

Timothy Perrin Fisher-Jeffes · Cambridge, US
Dilip Muthukrishnan · Austin, US
Thomas Keller · Cambridge, GB

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 19, 2008
Grant date	Feb 28, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 13, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04B2201/7071
WIPO fieldTelecommunications
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A rake receiver having a rake receiver finger operated in a time multiplexed manner to perform the task a plurality of fingers, each of these fingers being a virtual finger allocated to a time slot in an operation cycle of the rake receiver finger, and wherein a buffer is provided for buffering at least one received chip of data, and where a spare virtual finger is provided such that any virtual finger may request extra processing within an operation cycle of the time multiplexed rake receiver finger.

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