Patent ID: 7769920

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, including one or more hardware elements, connected to a recording or playback apparatus having a file system, the information processing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit for receiving a first command, wherein the first command is provided by an operating system in response to a file operating request from an application; and a converting unit for converting the first command provided by the operating system into a request, wherein the request is converted into a second command based on a communication protocol capable of handling the file system in communication with said recording or playback apparatus, wherein the communication protocol employed in determining the second command that the request is converted to is determined in accordance with handling the file system in a subsequent stage, wherein the second command accesses a real file system and a virtual file system of the recording or playback device, and wherein the virtual file system comprises a communication function based on protocol that provides real files managed by the real file system as virtual files managed by the virtual file system to the exterior, and the virtual file system provides to the exterior, in the form of a single file, a virtual file comprising data from a plurality of different files managed by the real file system, wherein the virtual file provided to the exterior comprises audio and video files, and wherein back-up files, disk information files, clip information files, and frame metadata files, each of which are managed by the real file system, are filtered out and excluded from the virtual file provided to the exterior.