Patent ID: 7697819

Claim:
A storage medium with respect to which an apparatus transfers data, the storage medium comprising: movie mode data to be used by the apparatus for reproducing audio-visual (AV) data; program mode data including a plurality of application programs used by the apparatus for providing additional functions using the AV data and management information to be used by the apparatus for managing the execution of the application programs in one or more titles; and system data to be used by the apparatus for controlling the execution of the movie mode data and the program mode data; wherein the system data comprises mode information indicating and distinguishing between a movie mode or a program mode so as to indicate to the apparatus whether a reproduction mode of one of the titles to be reproduced is in the movie mode using the movie mode data or the program mode using the program mode data, and the mode information is included in each item of title information in the system data, and is used by the apparatus to determine the reproduction mode of a corresponding one of the titles.