PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16230741
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["084", "47100R"]

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus for teaching students to read and play music, particularly on a keyboard. Musical notations having upper level letter charts and lower level letter charts for playing with right and left hand playing, respectively, in combination with a tab strip for easy and quick learning and playing of the upper and lower level letter charts. The tab strip has alignment markings and letter notes whereby the alignment markings are aligned with the black keys so that the letter notes align with their respective white keys and black keys. The tab strip may be removable and transportable for playing on various different instruments.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for teaching a student to read and play music on an instrument comprising:\n providing a first level chart identifying letter note names for playing with the student's right hand; providing a second level chart identifying other letter note names for playing with the student's left hand; providing a tab strip having a first set of letter-notes that correspond to a first set of chords on an instrument and a second set of letter-notes that correspond to a second set of chords on the instrument, the tab strip having alignment markings; positioning the tab strip on the instrument; and aligning the alignment markings of the tab strip with the second set of chords on the instrument so that the first set of letter-notes on the tab strip are in alignment with the first set of chords on the instrument and the second set of letter-notes on the tab strip are in alignment with the second set of chords on the instrument; whereby the student reads both the first level chart and the second level chart in combination with using the tab strip to play music using the student's right hand and left hand simultaneously.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80952
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15867962', '13865304', '10273353', '13859844', '12721267']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6557556009529701
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5030275971752899
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6404828005752021
- Mean Citation Score: 296.969808
- Max Citation Score: 303.95386
- Similarity Product: 213.14911687978747

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test