Patent ID: 7664372

Claim:
A recording medium storing an executable data structure for managing multiple component data recorded on the recording medium, comprising: a data area having a first clip file including data packets of a first data stream and a second clip file including data packets of a second data stream, the first clip file and the second clip file being separate clip files, each of the clip files having a plurality of entry points, each of the clip files being associated with a different reproduction path, each of the clip files being divided into a plurality of data units with boundaries between the data units indicating where jumping to a different clip file is permitted; and a management area, the management area storing an entry point map identifying the plurality of entry points of an associated clip file, the entry point map including a plurality of flags, each flag being associated with one of the plurality of entry points and indentifying whether jumping to another clip file is permitted in relation to the one entry point and mapping presentation start time information to a data packet number for the associated clip file.