Patent ID: 6483019
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: G09B,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for displaying music, comprising:an Internet server for storing the music; a computer, having a computer memory, for accessing the Internet server and for downloading a particular musical composition, having a plurality of groups of music, with each group having a variation in the particular musical composition corresponding to a particular musical instrument; said computer for translating the particular musical composition to a FHS file format, including a header chuck, a page chuck, a text chuck, and an end chunk; said computer for storing, using the FHS file format, the particular musical composition in said computer memory, said computer for retrieving, from said computer memory, the particular musical composition stored in said computer memory; a plurality of groups of viewers, coupled to said computer, with each group of viewers having at least one viewer, with the plurality of groups of viewers corresponding to the plurality of groups of music, respectively, with the plurality of groups of viewers for displaying, using the FHS file format, the plurality of groups of music of the particular musical composition retrieved from said computer memory, with said computer for controlling display of the particular musical composition on each of the plurality of groups of viewers; a plurality of styluses, with a stylus located at each viewer within each group of the plurality of groups of viewers, respectively, with each stylus for annotating, at a respective display, the respective particular musical composition with annotations, thereby the plurality of styluses generating a plurality of annotations corresponding to the plurality of groups of viewers, respectively; and said computer for storing the plurality of annotations as a combined-annotated file or as a plurality of viewer-annotated files, for later display with the particular musical composition, and for uploading the combined-annotated file or the plurality of viewer-annotated files to the Internet server.