Patent ID: 8250123

Claim:
A method for recording data on a contactless integrated circuit (IC) memory associated with a data storage cartridge, comprising: parsing an index of a plurality of files to be recorded on a storage media of the data storage cartridge with a table of contents (TOC) profile file to build a table of contents (TOC) specific to an owning application of the plurality of files; writing the TOC to the contactless IC memory; and subsequent to an insertion of the data storage cartridge: building an additional TOC by reading the index and the TOC profile file from the storage media, comparing the additional TOC with at least one of the TOC written to the contactless IC memory and the index to verify additional consistency, and verifying consistency between the TOC written to the contactless IC memory and the index, wherein if the TOC and the index are inconsistent, refreshing the TOC profile file with data from the index.