Method for combining data from phase indeterminate data streams for raking

A method for combining data from phase indeterminate data paths, comprising:

• receiving a wireless signal at a receiving device, the wireless signal including a plurality of path components, each path component carrying a main phase indeterminate data stream derived from an original data stream;
• splitting the received wireless signal into N signal copies and providing those N signal copies to N raking channels;
• correlating each of the N signal copies with N locally-generated signals, respectively, to generate N correlated signals, each of the N correlated signals carrying a phase indeterminate path data stream that estimates one of the main phase indeterminate data streams from one of the plurality of path components;
• synchronizing each of the N correlated signals to a system clock phase and a system clock frequency in the receiving device to generate N synchronized signals, each of the N synchronized signals carrying a synchronized path data stream;
• aligning the N synchronized signals to generate N aligned signals, each of the N aligned signals carrying an aligned path data stream that is normalized in time with respect to the other (N−1) aligned signals;
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• combining the N aligned signals to produce an estimated original data stream.