Patent ID: 7050704

Claim:
A method for storing digital data from a storage device to a digital recording medium, comprising: (a) searching for a recordable location in the digital recording medium when a data store is requested from said storage device in communication with the digital recording medium through a digital interface, wherein said storage device includes a microprocessor and a memory; (b) recording data streams received through the digital interface from said memory of said storage device in the location discovered in (a), wherein the data streams have been converted from the data of a multimedia file which is selected in said storage device; and (c) creating management information regarding the data streams recorded, further comprising: providing a list of multimedia files from the microprocessor for selection by a user, reading data of a selected multimedia file from a computer readable storage medium by the microprocessor, converting the read data into packets of transport stream (TS) format, and storing the TS-formatted packets in the memory, and wherein (b) and (c) record the received data in a main code area and the management information in a subcode area of the recording medium.