PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["463", "016000"]

Abstract:
A system and method of providing a player loyalty program to award a player of an electronic gaming machine, including conducting games with enhanced payouts based on a cash in or initial investment amount. In response to a player's initial investment or cash in amount, a payout schedule is selected. The larger the initial investment the better the selected payout schedule for the player. Live games facilitated by electronic gaming machines or devices and server-based games may utilize the method disclosed herein. Players may also receive enhanced awards such as enhanced player points based on the amount of the initial investment. Awards and bonuses may also be provided to players who exhaust an initial investment exceeding a threshold amount.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of conducting a player loyalty program to award a player of a game on an electronic gaming machine, the electronic gaming machine being operatively associated with a display, a memory unit and a processor, the method comprising the steps of:\n said processor accepting an initial investment from a player to participate in said game on said electronic gaming machine, said electronic gaming machine being configured to use at least one of a first payout schedule and a second payout schedule to determine payouts to said player's account from instances of play of the game, wherein the first payout schedule includes one or more higher payouts than one or more payouts included in the second payout schedule; said processor crediting said player's account on said electronic gaming machine an amount equivalent to said initial investment, wherein said player's account is stored in the memory unit; said processor receiving a first threshold value associated with the amount of said initial investment credited to said player's account and storing said first threshold value in the memory unit; responsive to the amount of said initial investment credited to said player's account being greater than said first threshold value, said processor using the first payout schedule to determine any payout amounts to be credited to said player's account from instances of play of the game; said processor receiving a threshold number of times the first payout schedule is used to determine any payout amounts to be credited to said player's account and storing said first threshold number of times in the memory unit; said processor counting a number of times the first payout schedule is used for said player's account on said electronic gaming machine; responsive to the processor counting said count of the number of times said first payout schedule is used being less than said threshold number of times and said initial investment being exhausted, said processor assigning an award to said player's account on said electronic gaming machine; and responsive to the processor counting said count of the number of times said first payout schedule is used being equal to or greater than said threshold number of times, said processor using the second payout schedule to determine any payout amounts to be credited to said player's account from instances of play of the game thereafter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82857
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15680172', '12050768', '14201417', '14096140', '14465706']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3961850276848505
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5968638116574572
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4162529060821112
- Mean Citation Score: 494.670816
- Max Citation Score: 542.7919
- Similarity Product: 512.1286127762735

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