PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16026601
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A gaming machine displays a set of virtual center reels, creating an M×N array of symbols, and an independent set of virtual peripheral reels surrounding the M×N array. The peripheral reels are part of a secondary game, and each peripheral reel displays only one symbol position. The center reels contain at least one trigger symbol for trigging the secondary game. Each of the reels spins and randomly stops. Awards are granted for winning symbol combinations on the center reels. If the trigger symbol is displayed in the M×N array, or other trigger condition exists, a bonus award is granted for winning symbol combinations on the peripheral reels. The bonus award may be based on the number of peripheral symbols that match the displayed trigger symbol or may be based on other criteria. In one embodiment, the trigger symbols are only on one of the center reels.

Claim (Index 17):
A gaming device comprising:\n a set of motor driven reels; one or more video screens for displaying a set of secondary reels that at least partially surround the motor driven reels; at least one computer programmed to carry out the following steps: spinning and randomly stopping the set of motor driven reels; spinning and stopping the set of secondary reels, the secondary reels being configured to randomly display peripheral symbols, including scatter symbols, during a secondary game, wherein the scatter symbols displayed on the secondary reels in the secondary game are combinable only with each other to form winning symbol combinations of the scatter symbols in the secondary game, or wherein the scatter symbols on the secondary reels result in a winning symbol in the secondary game; the motor driven reels having at least one trigger symbol for triggering the secondary game involving the secondary reels, each of the secondary reels being independently spun and stopped and each of the secondary reels displaying at most one peripheral symbol, the motor driven reels displaying an M\u00d7N array of symbols, where M and N are each greater than one; determining any winning symbol combinations in the M\u00d7N array of symbols; detecting that there is a trigger condition for playing the secondary game, the trigger condition being based on the display of one or more of the at least one trigger symbol; determining any winning symbol combinations by the scatter symbols, or a winning symbol, displayed on the secondary reels, such winning symbols combinations by the scatter symbols not including any symbols displayed by the motor driven reels; and granting the player an award for any winning symbol combinations in the M\u00d7N array of symbols and a bonus award for any winning symbol combinations or winning symbol by only the peripheral symbols displayed on the secondary reels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38806
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14338792', '16026756', '11311962', '12630801', '12238329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4313201260710862
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.592961536682936
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4474842671322712
- Mean Citation Score: 449.617188
- Max Citation Score: 539.4855
- Similarity Product: 525.8000381314158

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

Dataset: test