A path protection method for a CDMA reception apparatus is disclosed, which obtains correlation value levels while shifting the despreading timing of reception data little by little, searches for optimal reception timings, outputs a plurality of finger path timings, with respect to the reception data,...http://www.google.de/patents/US7359399?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7359399 - CDMA path protection method based on path protection information