Patent ID: 9390753
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A content management apparatus including a recording unit configured to record a content, and an operation unit configured to accept a user operation required to append additional information to the content, said apparatus comprising: an execution unit configured to execute a first process for recording additional information in association with latest content data recorded in a recording medium in the recording unit in response to a predetermined user operation; and a control unit configured to enable, when the latest content data recorded in the recording medium is determined to have been recorded in the recording medium by an immediately preceding recording operation of the recording unit, the predetermined user operation required to issue an execution instruction of the first process, wherein the control unit disables, when the latest content data recorded in the recording medium become content data that have not been recorded in the recording medium by an immediately preceding recording operation of the recording unit due to deletion of content data that have been recorded in the recording medium by an immediately preceding recording operation, the predetermined user operation required to issue the execution instruction of the first process.