Patent ID: 6580871
Filing Date: 2003-06-17
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A device for recording an information signal supplied by a signal source in a record carrier, comprising:processing means for processing an information signal and for supplying a recording information signal; input means for supplying an activation information and a wait information; and operating means, cooperating with at least a part of the processing means and with the input means, for recording an information signal in the record carrier depending on the occurrence of activation information and for consecutively overwriting storage of a recording information signal in a temporary store at least depending on the occurrence of wait information, wherein: the operating means arbitrarily assigns an area of the record carrier as the temporary store; the operating means starts a consecutively overwriting storage of the recording information signal in the temporary store depending on the occurrence of the wait information, and stops the consecutively overwriting storage of the recording information signal in the temporary store depending on the occurrence of the activation information; and wherein the recording information signal, formed by the processing means and recorded by the operating means, includes information signal packets and address signal packet, the information signal packets corresponding to the information signals, and the address signal packets including address information, whereby, during a reproduction of information signal packets recorded in the temporary store and information signal packets recorded in further areas of the record carrier, the time sequence of the reproduced information signal packets is defined for the purpose of linking the information signal packets.