Patent ID: 7275202

Claim:
An autonomous error recovery method for a memory device of a computing system, said method comprising: testing addressed data and associated control information of a memory device for error, wherein the addressed data is to be provided responsive to a request therefor; ascertaining from a change bit of the associated control information whether the addressed data has changed since contents of an addressed storage compartment of a second memory device were written to the memory device as the addressed data, wherein the memory device and the second memory device comprise separate memory devices; and automatically retrieving the contents of the addressed storage compartment of the second memory device if error is detected by the testing and the addressed data has not changed, and providing the contents of the addressed storage compartment responsive to the request, otherwise denying access to the addressed data and to the contents of the addressed storage compartment of the second memory device responsive to the request if error is detected by the testing and the addressed data has changed.