Patent ID: 7715695

Claim:
A storage media management apparatus to and from which a plurality of storage media are to be connected and disconnected, comprising: a dividing unit operable to divide a content into a plurality of content parts; a management information generating unit operable to generate a plurality of pieces of management information in correspondence to the content parts, each piece of management information including (a) reconstruction information for reconstructing the content by concatenating a corresponding content part with the other content parts, and (b) individual information for making the corresponding content part individually usable; a writing unit operable to write each content part together with a corresponding piece of management information, to a different one of the storage media; a reading unit operable to read the pieces of management information from storage media that have been connected; a reconstruction judging unit operable, when a content part stored in one of the storage media is to be used, (a) to judge that the content is to be reconstructed and made usable when the reading unit succeeds in reading all of the pieces of management information, and (b) to judge that the content parts are to be individually made usable, when the reading unit fails to read any of the pieces of management information; and a program information generating unit operable (a) to generate, based on reconstruction information included in each piece of management information read by the reading unit, reconstruction program information for presenting the content as one program, when the reconstruction judging unit judges that the content is to be reconstructed and made usable, and (b) to generate, for each piece of management information read by the reading unit, individual program information for presenting a corresponding content part as an individual program, when the reconstruction judging unit judges that the content parts are to be individually made usable.