Patent ID: 7511213

Claim:
A method for musical sonification of financial market data to monitor the financial market data, the method comprising: receiving at least one financial market data stream including data values representing a series of financial market events; determining that received data values represent financial market events to be sonified; in response to determining financial market events to be sonified, determining corresponding sonifications associated with the financial market events to be sonified, wherein at least some of the sonifications include a musical arrangement of notes that musically convey the financial market event, wherein the musical arrangement of notes includes a three note melodic fragment indicative of a data movement event, wherein a first note is a reference note and second and third notes are indicative of previous and current data values, respectively; and generating an audio signal output corresponding to a series of sonifications determined for at least some of the financial events in the financial market data stream to produce a musical rendering of the financial market data stream.