Patent ID: 7352955
Filing Date: 2008-04-01
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: a management file processing unit that generates a management file associated with an information file containing information data; a recording unit that records a plurality of said information files and the management file associated with the information files on a recording medium; and a control information processing unit that generates reproduction control information indicating a reoroduction sequence of the plurality of information data recorded on the recording medium, wherein said management file includes link count information indicating a number of pieces of the reproduction control information which designate respective information data recorded on the recording medium, and deletion information indicating that an information data designated by the reproduction control information has been deleted from the recording medium, and wherein said management file processing unit changes a value of the link count information in correspondence with a change in reproduction sequence of the reproduction control information and determines, based on a value of the link count information of information data corresponding to a deletion instruction, whether or not the deletion information is to be appended to the management file.