Patent ID: 7561495

Claim:
A method for recording information, comprising: storing a first received information in a first memory; overwriting the first information stored in the first memory with newly received second information; in response to a first record command: transferring at least a part of the second information stored in the first memory into a second memory; and storing a third information received subsequent to the first record command directly in the second memory, bypassing the first memory, wherein the first memory includes a buffer memory used by a playback device to correct errors in media recorded in a disk format and retrieved for playback, and wherein the second and third received information form a first audio signal unit; receiving a second audio signal unit; storing the second audio signal unit in the first memory, the second information and the second audio signal unit being simultaneously present in the first memory; and assigning to the first audio signal unit a first one of a plurality of buttons and to the second audio signal unit a second one of the plurality of buttons; wherein activation of the second button is interpreted as a second record command to transfer the second audio signal to the second memory, and activation of the first button is interpreted as the first record command.