US 6,982,934 B2
Recording-medium management apparatus, recording-medium management method, program having function of managing recording medium, and computer-readable program storage medium for storing the program
Yoriaki Kanada, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, (Japan)
Filed on Dec. 19, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/322,592.
Claims priority of application No. P2001-388336 (JP), filed on Dec. 20, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2003/0156506 A1, Aug. 21, 2003
Int. Cl. G11B 21/08 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 369—30.03 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording-medium management apparatus comprising:
playback means for playing back data recorded in a removable recording medium to which a unique identifier is attached; and
recording-medium management means for managing the recording medium based on the identifier,
wherein the playback means includes:
reading means for automatically reading the identifier from the recording medium when the data is played back; and
transmission means for transmitting the read identifier to the recording-medium management means, and
wherein the recording-medium management means includes:
setting information management means for managing setting information corresponding to the identifier;
check means for checking whether or not the setting information corresponding to the identifier received from the playback means is managed by the setting information management means; and
obtaining-and-transmitting means for obtaining the setting information corresponding to the identifier from the setting information management means and transmitting the setting information to the playback means.