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 1):
A system for teaching a student to read and play music on an instrument comprising:\n a musical notation having a first level chart identifying letter notes for playing with the student's right hand and a second level chart identifying other letter notes for playing with the student's left hand; 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 that align 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; and an end user using the musical notation and tab strip together, whereby the end user reads both the first level chart and the second level chart on the musical notation while using the tab strip to associate the read letter notes to the chords on the instrument to play music using the end user'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): 0.6558400909566794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.502351640205502
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6404912458815616
- Mean Citation Score: 296.969808
- Max Citation Score: 303.95386
- Similarity Product: 217.0407704682708

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