Patent ID: 8276024

Claim:
A method for error correction of a data file on a storage media comprising: receiving at a media server, over a communications network, a request to replace unreadable data of a data file stored on a storage media and identified during at least one of playback and execution of the data file from the storage media by a reproduction apparatus; transmitting to the reproduction apparatus, over the communications network, replacement data corresponding to the unreadable data, responsive to the request; and generating, by the media server, a correction record for the storage media, based on the request, in a replacement data request log, wherein the correction record includes information indicating: (i) an identity of a particular storage media, for which replacement data corresponding to unreadable data of a particular data file stored thereon is transmitted responsive to a request to replace unreadable data of the particular data file stored on the particular storage media received at the media server including an identifier of the particular data file and an identifier of the particular storage media; (ii) a number of times a request to replace unreadable data of the particular data file on the particular storage media is received at the media server; and (iii) one or more certain types of storage media, for which replacement data corresponding to unreadable data of the particular data file is transmitted responsive to a request to replace unreadable data of the particular data file, such that a problem with writing a properly received data file to a specific type of storage media is identifiable.