Patent ID: 7228058

Claim:
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): (d) moving sequentially from segment to segment within each of said first or second patterns of segments during said alternating recording and playing back as long as recorded segments can be played back in order within each of said first or second patterns of segments; and, (e) jumping between said first and second patterns of segments only when the oldest unplayed recorded segment is in the other one of said first or second patterns of segments.