PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014657
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for overlappingly providing each of a first game utilizing a set of mechanical reels and a second game utilizing a video display device. In these embodiments, upon a displayed event associated with one or more of the mechanical reels of the first game, the gaming system triggers one or more features of the second game.

Claim (Index 10):
A gaming system comprising:\n a housing; a display device supported by the housing; a plurality of mechanical reels supported by the housing; a processor; and a memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:\n responsive to an occurrence of an overlappingly played games triggering event, for a play of a first game:\n activate a first game payline based on a placement of a wager, \n cause the plurality of mechanical reels to start spinning, \n cause the plurality of mechanical reels to stop spinning to display a first plurality of randomly determined symbols, and \n for the activated first game payline, determine an award based on a quantity of the symbols of the displayed first plurality of randomly determined symbols that intersect the activated first game payline, \n \n prior to determining any award in association with a play of a second game which overlaps with the play of the first game, determine if a second game feature activation event occurred based on at least one symbol of the displayed first plurality of randomly determined symbols being associated with a sub-symbol, and \n responsive to the second game feature activation event occurring, for the play of the second game which overlaps with the play of the first game and which occurs responsive to the occurrence of the overlappingly played games triggering event:\n activate a second game payline based on the placement of the wager, \n cause the display device to display a second plurality of randomly determined symbols at a plurality of symbol display positions, \n cause the display device to display a persistent wild symbol at one of the symbol display positions, wherein the persistent wild symbol remains displayed at another one of the symbol display positions for another play of the second game, and \n for the activated second game payline, determine an award based on a quantity of the symbols of the displayed second plurality of randomly determined symbols that intersect that activated second game payline and any displayed persistent wild symbol that intersects the activated second game payline.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69767
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13790644', '14811291', '15492756', '13790759', '14809977']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.449924477936801
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5126315133552345
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4561951814786443
- Mean Citation Score: 369.89698
- Max Citation Score: 374.06024
- Similarity Product: 294.5811878435612

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

Dataset: test