Patent ID: 7221854

Claim:
A method for recording information on an information storage medium which comprises a management area and a data area, said data area being provided for recording data in such a manner that the data is managed based on one or more sequences, said management area including a play list search pointer table for managing play lists, each play list being defined as a user defined program chain (PGC) determining a presentation sequence of one or more user defined cells, wherein said play list search pointer table is configured to store a play list search pointer, said play list search pointer includes information in the form or type of a play list, information on the number of the PGC corresponding to the play list, and information on the date and time at which the play list was created, said play list search pointer is configured to store first text information related to the play list expressed in characters, and a specific area, which is different from a recording area of said play list search pointer in said management area, is configured to store second text information, said specific area is configured to further store a search pointer indicating a location of the second text information, said play list search pointer is configured to further record search information which includes a search pointer number, the search pointer number in the play list search pointer corresponds to the search pointer in the specific area when searching for the second text information, wherein said management area further includes a user defined program chain information table containing one or more pieces of information of the user defined program chain, and one or more user defined program chain information search pointers for respectively pointing the one or more pieces of information of the user defined program chain, said method comprising: recording the data on the data area; and recording information of the user defined program chain on the management area.