Patent ID: 7254102

Claim:
A method for optically recording information in a system comprising a recording and reading device that includes a strategy part for conducting a strategy when optically recording information and an information processing apparatus that includes a strategy information storing part storing the strategy information for operating said strategy part, said method comprising the steps of: (a) reading said strategy information for operating said strategy part of said recording and reading device from said strategy information storing part of said information processing apparatus; (b) transmitting said strategy information read in said step (a) to said recording and reading device; wherein a plurality of data sets of the strategy information is stored in said strategy part; (c) storing registration information in addition to device information and medium information to said strategy information storing part; (d) transmitting said registration information additionally provided to said medium information to said recording and reading device and storing said medium information with said registration information to said strategy part, when said strategy information is transmitted from said information processing apparatus to said recording and reading device; (e) determining said strategy information, which is stored in said strategy part, to be deleted based on said registration information stored in said strategy part and deleting determined strategy information, when said strategy information transmitted from said in formation processing apparatus cannot be stored because of a shortage of a recording capacity of said strategy; and (f) storing said strategy information transmitted from said information processing apparatus.