PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16138686
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["463", "025000"]

Abstract:
One aspect of the disclosure relates to implementing a refund calculator in an online game. The refund calculator may provide the ability to prioritize what users may receive items, troops, and/or any other in-game parameters. The refund calculator may provide the ability to determine how many items and/or troops the user may be refunded, the time frame in which the user receives the items, troops and/or other aspects of a refund.

Claim (Index 25):
A computer implemented method for implementing a mechanism for automatically determining and distributing refunds of virtual items to users in an online game, the system comprising:\n executing an instance of a game space, and implementing the instance of the game space to facilitate participation by the users in the online game that takes place in the game space, wherein facilitating interaction of the users with the game space and/or each other by performing operations in the game space in response to commands received from the users through client computing platforms associated with the users; storing inventories of items that are available to the users in the game space, the inventories including a first inventory of items available to a first user in the game space and a second inventory of items available to a second user in the game space; receiving, from the first user a first refund request for a first set of one or more virtual items to be refunded into the first inventory; receiving, from the second user, a second refund request for a second set of one or more virtual items to be refunded into the second inventory; determining user values, indicating value of the users, based on past user spending characterizing past spending by individual ones of the users in the online game, the user values including a first user value indicating a value of the first user and a second user value indicating a second value of the second user; determining refunds in response to the first and second refund requests based on the user values, wherein the refunds are distributed into the inventories of the users without requiring an exchange of consideration by the users for the refunds, such that whether a first refund is to be distributed into the first inventory is determined based on the first user value and wherein the first refund is to be distributed without requiring the first user to exchange any consideration for the first refund, and further such that whether a second refund is to be distributed into the second inventory is determined based on the second user value and wherein the second refund is to be distributed without requiring the second user to exchange any consideration for the second refund; responsive to a first determination that the first refund is to be distributed, distributing the first refund for the first set of one or more virtual items into the first inventory of the first user; and responsive to a second determination that the second refund is not to be distributed, not distributing the second refund for the second set of one or more virtual items into the second inventory of the second user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 86.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81395
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13915416', '13902574', '14830634', '13910037', '13948847']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3499663840286959
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5691025028351309
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3718799959093394
- Mean Citation Score: 292.333438
- Max Citation Score: 485.5656
- Similarity Product: 468.2340515015602

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

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