Patent ID: 8036077

Claim:
A method of recording information on a multi-layer optical record carrier, said record carrier comprising at least two information layers and each of said at least two information layers comprising an inner control information area, a user information area, and an outer control information area, the method comprising the acts of: a first recording act of writing information patterns representing user information in the user information area of a first layer of said at least two information layers; a subsequent second recording act of writing information patterns representing user information in the user information area of a second layer of said at least two information layers; a subsequent finalization act of writing information patterns representing control information in the inner control information areas and the outer control information areas of said first layer and said second layer; and an initialization act of writing information patterns representing control information in at least one of the inner control information area and the outer control area of the second layer, wherein the initialization act is located in time after the first recording act and before the second recording act for allowing the user information recorded on the second layer directly after a layer jump from the first layer to the second layer to be read back before the finalizing act.