Patent 7103729 was granted and assigned to Intel on September, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus to free at least a portion of memory space of a memory device from at least a portion of a stored data block, wherein the freeing is based on the block sequence number of the stored data block and a quality indicator value related to at least a portion of the stored data block. The apparatus may include a receiver to receive at least the portion of the data block transmitted according to an error correction scheme.