Interference cancellation in a spread spectrum communication system

A user equipment for use in code division multiple access communication system, the system having a base station transmitting traffic signal over a shared spectrum, the traffic signal having an associated code, the user equipment comprising:

• means for receiving signals over the shared spectrum;
• means for sampling the received signals to produce samples;
• means for delaying the samples to produce a window, the window having evenly time spaced samples;
• means for determining a weight for each despread window sample using an adaptive algorithm, the adaptive algorithm providing a determination of an optimum weight for each of a plurality of despread components;
• means for despreading each window sample with a traffic code;
• means for weighting each despread traffic code window sample with a corresponding weight of the determined weights;
• and
• means for combining each despread traffic code window sample as data of the traffic signal.