Patent ID: 8139451
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information recording apparatus for recording additional content on a medium on which a title including one or more files is already recorded, the additional content being provided by a content server, the information recording apparatus comprising: means for designating, to the content server, a title to be added on the medium; means for transmitting disc package information to the content server, the disc package information including file name information on files constituting all titles already recorded on the medium including a title for display of a menu screen already recorded on the medium, and unique IDs for identifying by the content server all the titles already recorded on the medium; means for receiving and additionally recording on the medium the title to be added generated in the content server, file names of files constituting the title to be added being defined in the title to be added, on the basis of the disc package information, so as not to be the same as the file names of the files constituting the titles already recorded on the medium; means for receiving and additionally recording a new title for display of a menu screen on the medium, the new title for display of a menu screen being generated in the content server so that the title to be added can be selected, on the basis of the disc package information; and means for receiving and additionally recording new disc package information on the medium, the new disc package information including file name information on files constituting the title to be added generated in the content server, the new title for display of a menu screen generated in the content server, and a title except for the title for display of a menu screen already recorded on the medium before the additional content is recorded, and unique IDs for identifying by the content server titles except for the title for display of a menu screen already recorded.