US Patent 10067981 Intelligent memory block replacement

A framework for intelligent memory replacement of loaded data blocks by requested data blocks is provided. For example, various factors are taken into account to optimize the selection of loaded data blocks to be discarded from the memory, in favor of the requested data blocks to be loaded into the memory. In some implementations, correlations between the requested data blocks and the loaded data blocks are used to determine which of the loaded data blocks may become candidates to be discarded from memory.