PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986192
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["463", "016000"]

Abstract:
A gaming machine comprises a symbol selector for selecting a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols for display during play of a base game, the set of symbols including a plurality of non-configurable symbols and a plurality of configurable symbols; a random number generator for generating random prize values; a value assigner for assigning a generated random prize value to each selected configurable symbol; and an outcome evaluator for monitoring play of the base game, wherein a feature game is triggered in response to a trigger event, the trigger event comprising a predefined number of the plurality of configurable symbols being selected by the symbol selector for display. During the feature game, the symbol selector is further configured to 1) hold the selected configurable symbols that comprise the trigger event on the display; 2) remove at least one of the selected non-configurable symbols from the display; and 3) replace any removed non-configurable symbol with another symbol selected from the set of symbols.

Claim (Index 10):
An electronic method of wagering, comprising:\n receiving, with a credit input mechanism of a gaming machine, a physical item representing a monetary value to establish a credit balance; selecting a wager funded by the credit balance based on input received via a player interface of the gaming machine; initiating play of a base game based on input received via the player interface; spinning a plurality of virtual reels displayed by a display device of the gaming machine to select and display a plurality of symbols at a plurality of corresponding display positions on the display device, wherein the plurality of symbols are selected from configurable symbols and non-configurable symbols; initiating a feature game when a triggering number of configurable symbols are displayed; and during the feature game:\n setting a quantity of games remaining in the feature game to an initial quantity; \n holding each configurable symbol at its corresponding display position; \n respinning the plurality of virtual reels to select and display replacement symbols for non-configurable symbols in the plurality of corresponding display positions; \n reducing the quantity of games remaining when the replacement symbols do not include at least one configurable symbols; \n resetting the quantity of games remaining in the feature game to the initial quantity when the replacement symbols include at least one configurable symbol; \n repeating the holding, the respinning, the reducing, and/or the resetting until the quantity of games remaining is none or until a threshold number of configurable symbols are held; and \n awarding a feature game award based on the configurable symbols held in the plurality of corresponding display positions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34211
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15428813', '15425765', '14821952', '14939074', '14821504']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3994364070043637
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5691342878426252
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4164061950881899
- Mean Citation Score: 412.095344
- Max Citation Score: 490.925
- Similarity Product: 468.4053601592779

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

Dataset: test