PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976747
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A system apparatus and method which provides a player of a gaming system the ability to increase their wager for a guaranteed wild reel. The system apparatus and method may increase the number of reels that may become a wild reel based on the player increasing their wager. A system apparatus and method which provides a player of a non-wagering or social gaming system the ability to increase their virtual wager for a guaranteed wild reel is also contemplated.

Claim (Index 20):
A method for operating a gaming system, the method comprising:\n receiving an electronic communication to begin a new wagering game; determining a wager associated with the new wagering game; determining if the associated wager is one of a plurality of qualifying wagers; when it is determined that the associated wager is one of the plurality of qualifying wagers, determining the level of the qualifying wager; causing a display device to display five reels; determining a number of the displayed reels to highlight based on the determined level of the qualifying wager, wherein the number of displayed reels to highlight is greater than one and less than five; causing a display device to display the spinning of the five reels; when the number of highlighted reels is equal to one, determining that the highlighted reel is a wild reel; when the number of highlighted reels is equal to two, determining, based on a probability associated with each of the two highlighted reels, which of the two highlighted reels is a wild reel, wherein the probability associated with each of the two highlighted reels is different; when the number of highlighted reels is equal to three, determining, based on a probability associated with each of the three highlighted reels, which of the three highlighted reels is a wild reel, wherein the probability associated with each of the three highlighted reels is different; when the number of highlighted reels is equal to four, determining, based on a probability associated with each of the four highlighted reels, which of the four highlighted reels is a wild reel, wherein the probability associated with each of the four highlighted reels is different; causing the display device to display any determined wild reel to stop and indicate that the entire reel is wild; thereafter, causing each of the reels not determined to be a wild reel to stop; determining the outcome of the game based on the stopped reels; and when the determined outcome is a winning outcome, providing an award to the player based at least in part on the determined outcome and the determined wager.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15789
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14457306', '13323337', '12751498', '13969881', '11928837']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3636699822322148
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5163818855086975
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3789411725598631
- Mean Citation Score: 338.8199180000001
- Max Citation Score: 358.4394200000001
- Similarity Product: 270.2294626085234

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

Dataset: test