PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927858
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A gaming machine having a first reel, and a set of second reels. The first reel has a plurality of prizes displayed at respective first display positions, and spins in a first direction. Each of the second reels is aligned with one of the first display positions, and spins in a second direction to identify one of the prizes.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of operating at least one gaming machine, wherein the at least one gaming machine comprises:\n a first reel having prizes thereon, the first reel configured to be spun in a first direction to a stopped configuration in which a plurality of the prizes are displayed at respective ones of a plurality of first display positions arranged in a line extending in the first direction; and a first set of second reels and a second set of second reels, each second reel comprising a plurality of symbols including at least one index symbol, wherein each second reel is aligned with one of the first display positions, and wherein each reel of the first and second sets of second reels is configured to be spun in a second direction transverse to the first direction, wherein the method comprises:\n controlling each of the second reels to spin at least once to a respective stop position to thereby select, at the conclusion of the spinning, a symbol for display for each of the second reels; \n determining an index for each of the first and second sets of reels after finishing spinning the sets of second reels, each index comprising a set of first symbol display positions, wherein each index is for evaluating the first reel, and wherein each index is determined by identifying which of the first symbol positions are aligned with second reels displaying index symbols; \n controlling the first reel to spin and stop; and \n determining awards by evaluating the prizes displayed after the first reel stops based on the first and second indices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91176
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13738423', '14535021', '15207372', '13523330', '13547225']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3798910069975263
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5366534871927261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3955672550170462
- Mean Citation Score: 342.950026
- Max Citation Score: 380.37262
- Similarity Product: 284.39303612546206

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

Dataset: test