Patent 7627233 was granted and assigned to Panasonic on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The BD-ROM includes, recorded therein, a PlayList that is composed of an AVClip and PlayList information, an application, and a BD-J Object. The application is a program that is written in a programming language for a virtual machine, and a life cycle during which the application can be executed by the virtual machine is specified. The BD-J Object contains a PlayList management table. The PlayList management table indicates a playback control of the PlayList that is performed during the life cycle simultaneously with the execution of the application.