Patent ID: 7085476

Claim:
An information storage medium configured to have data recorded thereon and data reproduced therefrom by an information recording/reproducing apparatus, said data including control information and video object data, the information storage medium comprising: a data area configured to be assigned with a plurality of logical sectors and to store: the video object data, and a plurality of error correction code blocks, wherein a predetermined number of sectors form each error correction code block, and each of said sectors has a predetermined size; and a control information recording area configured to store said control information, the control information being configured to manage the video object data and including an AV file information table having a first area configured to store object stream information, and a second area configured to store AV file information configured to manage information of the video object data, the AV file information including a plurality of object information, and a plurality of object information search pointers associated with the plurality of object information, each said object information including information of object units of the video object data, wherein: said video object data is configured to be recorded, based on a given address, in at least one of the object units, an object corresponding to the video object data is allocated with or corresponds to one or more of the plurality of error correction code blocks, said given address is defined using a logical sector number of one of said logical sectors, and an error correction code block address being defined in units of the error correction code, said error correction code block address being defined separately from said logical sector number, each object information included in said AV file information includes time map information including time map general information, one or more time entries, and one or more data unit entries, and each time entry includes address information of a corresponding data unit of the video object data, wherein said recording/reproducing apparatus employs the control information to manage the video object data.