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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alois Kern, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Stefan Rapp, St. Georgen, DE;
Assignee:
Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/722 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/722 ;
Abstract
A stand alone CD player for reading data from a recording medium having data formatted in accordance with CD-like recording formats, for example, CD-ROM, CD-I and CD-V, stored thereon. According to the present invention, the playback of data from a recording medium having data in such a recording format is made possible by a virtual table of contents generated by the stand alone CD player. The virtual table of contents also enables sequential access to data stored on the recording medium that has a table of contents that cannot be read by the present CD player.