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OwnerShinichiro Uno, Takaaki Ashinuma +5inventors
InventorsShinichiro Uno, Takaaki Ashinuma, Yukinori Yamamoto, Masanori Ito, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Tadashi Nakamura, Makoto Mitsuda
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A file management method has highly general versatility among applications, does not waste recording area, and facilitates handling of volumes of discrete and grouped files and group information. A recording medium for use in the file management method. A contents management file (CMF) is provided for collectively all of necessary files and all groups, so that application can deal with volumes of filed on a disk through CMF without direct communication with the file systems and a necessitating the grouping can be performed in highly general versatility.
A method of managing files recorded on an information recording medium, wherein there is provided a Contents Management File including group information of a plurality of groups into which a plurality of files recorded on said medium are grouped and wherein management of the groups and files is carried out by means of the Contents Management File.
The file management method according to Claim.8, wherein said Contents Management File comprises information indicating information of a file or a group to be automatically started at the time of loading of a disk or at the time of application of power.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.