Patent ID: 9280960
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G09B,G10G,G10H

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method of displaying sheet music on an electronic reader, the method comprising: acquiring sheet music data; identifying, using bookmark data embedded in the sheet music data, a marker indicating a reference location of a plurality of reference locations within the sheet music data; identifying a type for the marker based on the bookmark data, the type indicating how the marker was created; determining the reference location in the sheet music data; identifying one or more instruments included in the sheet music data at the reference location; acquiring first music data from the sheet music data at the reference location, the first music data including a note and a note value for each musical symbol in a series of musical symbols; determining second music data from the first music data for each of the one or more instruments, the second music data including a portion of the first music data associated with each of the one or more instruments; updating an index to include the marker, the type of marker, the reference location, the one or more instruments associated with the reference location and the second music data, the index being a navigable index on the electronic reader including a portion of the plurality of reference locations in the sheet music data; filtering the index based on the type of marker; filtering the index based on the one or more instruments; and displaying the filtered index on a display of the electronic reader, wherein the marker is displayed proximate to the second music data.