Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, and mechanisms, for use in protecting groups of data words. One embodiment manipulates these data words to generate a resultant data word and an error correction code thereon for use in identifying a position of...http://www.google.com/patents/US20060168494?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20060168494 - Error protecting groups of data words