Patent ID: 7398352

Claim:
A recording method for recording data into an information recording medium, wherein the number of data rewrites into the same area is limited, the recording method comprising the steps of: (a) performing a search for unallocated areas in an information recording area and retaining, in a memory, unallocated area identifying information for identifying at least one unallocated area found by the search; (b) determining whether or not an unallocated area satisfying a record request is present among the at least one unallocated areas identified by the unallocated area identifying information; (c) when an unallocated area satisfying a record request is present among the at least one unallocated areas identified by the unallocated area identifying information, allocating the unallocated area as an area for recording data and recording data into the allocated; and (d) allocating unallocated areas identified in the search performed in step (a) with higher precedence than unallocated areas that have become unallocated areas only after the search performed in step (a).