The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, a program, and a recording medium that facilitate, for example, identification of information recorded on an recording medium. In a disc formatting process 211, a disc-metadata-file creating unit 181 creates a disc-metadata...http://www.google.com/patents/US20060126451?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20060126451 - Information processsing device and method, program, and recording medium