A novel an improved method of acquisition in a spread spectrum communication system is presented. In the present invention, a large window of PN chip offset hypotheses are searched and if an energy signal is found that might indicate the presence of the pilot signal having one of the chip offsets of...http://www.google.de/patents/US5644591?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5644591 - Method and apparatus for performing search acquisition in a CDMA communications system
