PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["463", "029000"]

Abstract:
The present invention involves methods and devices for controlling many aspects of a player's gaming experience, including game themes presented, game denomination, pay models, content and promotions. Some implementations of the invention provide a casino operator the necessary tools to create subsets of customers, often referred to herein as “communities,” and to control the gaming experiences of players in these communities. In some such implementations, communities may be created and/or modified according to various criteria, some of which may be weighted more heavily than others. Specific marketing messages, promotions, etc., may be provided to attract and retain players having similar characteristics and preferences.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of operating a gaming system, the method comprising:\n identifying, by a processor, a player of a gaming machine; responsive to receipt, via a payment acceptor, of a physical item associated with a monetary value, establishing a credit balance based on the monetary value associated with the physical item for the player; determining, by the processor, which of a plurality of different gaming communities the identified player is assigned to, wherein each different gaming community is associated with one of a plurality of different sets of one or more wagering games and one of a plurality of different sets of one or more wagering game characteristics; and enabling the identified player to play, on the gaming machine, one of the wagering games of the set of one or more wagering games associated with the player's assigned gaming community in accordance with the set of one or more wagering game characteristics associated with the player's assigned gaming community.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5125
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13911766', '15197286', '13911748', '13906050', '11739661']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.44097275002556
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5790813719276282
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4547836122157668
- Mean Citation Score: 488.30137
- Max Citation Score: 517.40607
- Similarity Product: 489.6074398443676

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

Dataset: test