Patent ID: 8059935

Claim:
An information recording medium for recording and reproducing data thereon on a sector-by-sector basis, the recorded data being managed as at least one file by using a file structure, wherein the file structure comprises unused space management information for identifying a used region and a unused region, and wherein at least one defective region detected as being defective during a recording operation of real-time data, which includes AV data but excludes PC data, is registered as an unused region in the unused space management information so as to be identified in the unused space management information as unallocated during a subsequent recording operation, the at least one defective region being a region in which the real time data is not recorded and in which data other than the real time data is recorded, the real-time data to be recorded on the defective region being recorded on the next available region after the defective region, and the at least one defective region being a region on the information recording medium which is incapable of proper reproduction of the recorded data.