IP Library Patent Application 12476920
Patent Application
App. No. 12/476,920

RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM AND STORAGE DEVICE

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12/476,920
Abstract

A recording method includes multiplexing data and continuously recording multiplexed data in a continuous recording region of a recording medium having a random recording region, and recording management information about multiplexing and recording in the random recording region.

Claims (14)

1 . A recording method comprising:

multiplexing data and continuously recording multiplexed data in a continuous recording region of a recording medium having a random recording region; and

recording management information about multiplexing and recording in the random recording region.

2 . The recording method according to claim 1 , wherein multiplexing includes dividing the data and assigning divided parts of the data to sectors formed in the continuous recording region.

3 . The recording method according to claim 1 , wherein the management information manages the multiplexed data recorded in the continuous recording region.

4 . The recording method according to claim 1 , wherein the continuous recording region ahs a track pitch less than that of the random recording region.

5 . The recording method according to claim 1 , wherein, when the multiplexed data are replaced by new data by multiplexing the new data and continuously recording multiplexed new data in the continuous recording region, the management information is updated to manage the multiplexed new data in the continuous recording region.

6 . A recording medium comprising:

a continuous recording region in which data are multiplexed and are continuously recorded; and

a random recording region in which management information about multiplexing and recording is recorded.

7 . A storage device comprising:

a recording medium;

a recording/reproduction element recording and reproducing data on and from the recording medium; and

a signal processing board that controls the recording/reproduction element.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 24, 2009
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: TOSHIBA STORAGE DEVICE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023565/0179 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 2, 2009
From: OHTA, MITSUHIKO
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 022769/0909 →