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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2011
Sung-hee Hwang, Suwon-si, KR;
Jung-wan Ko, Suwon-si, KR;
Kyung-geun Lee, Seongnam-si, KR;
In-oh Hwang, Seongnam-si, KR;
Sung-Hee Hwang, Suwon-si, KR;
Jung-Wan Ko, Suwon-si, KR;
Kyung-Geun Lee, Seongnam-si, KR;
In-Oh Hwang, Seongnam-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
Provided is an information storage medium that has a plurality of recording layers, a recording/reproducing method, and a recording/reproducing apparatus. In the information storage medium, each of the plurality of recording layers includes an inner circumference zone and a data zone, and at least one of the recording layers includes, in the inner circumference zone, a temporary disc management area (TDMA) for recording information about a defect detected in the data zone, wherein a size of a TDMA allocated on an upper layer is greater than a size of a TDMA allocated on a lower layer.