Patent ID: 7406250

Claim:
An information recording method of recording data on an information recording medium having a data recording portion and management information recording portion in which main and back-up management files are to be recorded, the information recording method comprising the steps of: recording a video file or an audio file in the data recording portion, the video file including video data, the audio file including audio data, the video data or the audio data comprising object units and being managed by a program; recording original program chain information in main and back-up management files, the original program chain information designating a reproduction order of a part of cells representing the video data in the video file or the audio data in the audio file; and recording new chain information as user-defined program chain information in the main and back-up management files, the new chain information designating a reproduction order of other part of the cells, which is different from a fixed reproduction order designated by the original program chain information, wherein the cells are represented by cell information, which is partially designated by the original program chain information or user-defined program chain information, in the main and back-up management files, the main management file and the back-up management file are updated by editing user-defined program chain information of the main management file and that of the back-up management file, and the reproduction order indicated by the original program chain information is maintained even when the user-defined program chain is edited.