ACQUISITION OF GATED PILOT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To disclose systems and techniques for acquiring a gated pilot signal. SOLUTION: A gated pilot signal can be acquired, by searching for a first gated pilot signal, deriving timing information from the search for the first gated pilot signal, and searching for a second gated pilot signal using the timing information. This is executed in a variety of fashions, including a receiver with a searcher configured to generate a bit sequence, a correlator configured for correlating a received signal with the bit sequence, and a processor configured to detect a first gated pilot signal as a function of the correlation, derive timing information from the first gated pilot signal and detect a second gated pilot signal, by using the timing information to control the bit sequence generated by the searcher. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT