Patent ID: 7228058
Filing Date: 2007-06-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method utilizing a disk medium for implementing a second pause during the course of recording and viewing a program that had been paused previously by alternately recording said program in a first pattern of interleaved segments on said track and playing back said program from said first pattern of interleaved segments, the method comprising the steps of: (a) upon initiation of said second pause, interrupting said alternately recording to and playing back from said first pattern of segments and jumping to a different portion of said track; (b) establishing at said different portion of said track a second pattern of interleaved segments by recording said program onto every other segment of said second pattern until termination of said second pause; (c) alternately generating a succession of said first pattern of segments and a succession of said second pattern of segments by alternately recording and playing back within each of said first and second patterns of segments; and, during said step (c):