Patent ID: 7295766

Claim:
A direct digital recording system, comprising: a physical layer configured to receive input media data from an input media capture device, said physical layer being capable of receiving asynchronous transactions and isochronous transactions; a link layer configured to receive asynchronous transactions and to convert the received asynchronous transactions to a computer readable file system format; a logics chip in communication with said physical and link layers, said logics chip being capable of receiving and transmitting asynchronous transactions and isochronous transactions from and to said physical layer, respectively, and being capable of receiving and transmitting asynchronous transactions from and to said link layer, said logics chip being further configured to convert the isochronous transactions received from the physical layer to asynchronous transactions for transmission to the link layer and to selectively convert any portion of the asynchronous transactions received from the link layer to isochronous transactions for transmission to the physical layer; and a storage having a storage media in communication with said link layer for storing the data in the computer readable file system format data transmitted from said link layer.