Patent ID: 7778517

Claim:
An information recording apparatus for recording broadcasting information on a recording medium, the broadcasting information includes one or more contents, types of the contents are different from each other, and is constituted of unit information which has a predetermined amount of information and correlation information which indicates a correlation between the contents, the apparatus comprising: a generating device for generating a plurality of contents group information based on the correlation information, each of the contents group information including identification information for identifying a relationship between the unit information and the content and type information indicating a type of the content, the contents group information (i) being a part of management information, (ii) indicating a contents group including the contents and (iii) indicating, for a respective contents group, one or more combinations of the contents which are able to be reproduced, and a recording device for recording the generated contents group information on the recording medium with the broadcasting information, wherein the recording device records the management information on the recording medium separately from the broadcasting information, and wherein only contents which are able to be reproduced are included in a display.