Data processing method, device thereof and program

• US 7,873,262 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2004
• Issued: 01/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Shibata, Yoshiaki, Shinkai, Mitsutoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pappas, Peter-Anthony
• Assistant Examiner(s): Topgyal, Gelek
• Application Number:
  US10/512,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20050226600A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,482 Days
• Field of Search: 386/83, 386/95, 386/125, 386/126
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/06 Digital input from, or digital output to, record carriers , e.g. RAID, emulated record carriers or networked record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2537 Optical discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/002 Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing; transfer of record carriers from magazine G11B15/68, G11B17/10; G11B17/22
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]

Abstract

An optical disk device 4 for acquiring a file path to an AV file data corresponding to a designated data UMID in an optical disk, based on management data MD read out from the optical disk, in response to a request REQ from a computer 3 and further accessing AV file data recorded at a physical address acquired based on the file path.

Claims

1. A data processing method comprising:

reading, by a computer processor, a removable recording medium containing management data set at an access position, the management data linking a globally unique identifier and an access path together, the globally unique identifier uniquely identifying a material data and the access path indicating the path on the removable recording medium to the material data;

notifying, by a computer processor, a remote network location that the removable recording medium is set at the access position when it is determined that the management data has linked the globally unique identifier with the access path;

accessing the removable recording medium at the access position; and

providing said access path in response to a request designating said globally unique identifier from the remote network location.

2. A data processing method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

updating said management data when new material data and a new globally unique identifier of said new material data are recorded on said removable recording medium, the updating step including linking the new globally unique identifier and new access path to said new material data in said removable recording medium and

writing said updated management data on said removable recording medium.

3. A data processing method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

deleting management data linking a globally unique identifier and access path corresponding to a deleted material data when the deleted material data is deleted from said removable recording medium, and generating new management data after the deleted material data has been deleted from said removable recording medium, and

writing said new management data generated in said deleting step on said removable recording medium.

4. The data processing method of claim 1, wherein the removable recording medium is an optical disk.

5. A data processing method executed by a computer based on an application program, a management program, and a file system program, comprising:

reading, by a computer processor, a removable recording medium containing management data set at an access position, the management data linking a globally unique identifier and an access path together, the globally unique identifier uniquely identifying a given material data in the removable recording medium;

notifying, by a computer processor, a remote network location that the removable recording medium is set at the access position when it is determined that the management data has linked the globally unique identifier with the access path;

accessing the removable recording medium at the access position;

issuing a request designating said globally unique identifier, by said application program at the remote network location to said management program;

providing said access path, to said file system program, in response to said request, said access path corresponding to said designated globally unique identifier contained in said management data; and

accessing, by the file system, said material data stored at a physical address of said removable recording medium, based on said access path.

6. The data processing method of claim 5, wherein the removable recording medium is an optical disk.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable memory including program code stored thereon, the program code being executable to perform operations comprising:

reading a removable recording medium containing management data set at an access position, the management data linking a globally unique identifier and an access path together, the globally unique identifier uniquely identifying a given material data and the access path indicating the path to the given material data in the removable recording medium;

notifying a remote network location that the removable recording medium is set at the access position when it is determined that the management data has linked the globally unique identifier with the access path;

accessing the removable recording medium at the access position; and

providing said access path in response to a request, from the remote network location, designating said globally unique identifier.

8. The data processing program of claim 7, wherein the removable recording medium is an optical disk.

9. A data management hardware apparatus comprising:

a reading means that reads a removable recording medium containing management data set at an access position, the management data linking a globally unique identifier and an access path together, the globally unique identifier uniquely identifying a given material data and the access path indicating the path to the given material data in the removable recording medium;

a notifying means that notifies a remote network location that the removable recording medium is set at the access position when it is determined that the management data has linked the globally unique identifier with the access path;

an accessing means that accesses the removable recording medium at the access position; and

a providing means that provides said access path in response to the request, from the remote network location, designating said globally unique identifier.

10. The data management apparatus of claim 9, wherein the removable recording medium is an optical disk.