PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870223
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["463", "017000"]

Abstract:
A plurality of virtual instant tickets are loaded onto a memory of a microprocessor that is physically provided to the consumer. The consumer is physically given a small object, such as a bank card or hotel room key card that has the microprocessor embedded therein. The memory of the microprocessor includes a validation number of each virtual instant ticket, and the winning or losing outcome of each virtual instant ticket and the value of any winning outcome. A purchase is made to unlock a portion of the virtual instant tickets, thereby allowing that portion of tickets to be played. The consumer uses a computing device that interacts with the microprocessor to play the tickets and informs the consumer of the outcome. Additional virtual instant tickets may be unlocked with subsequent purchases. The memory of the microprocessor is updated to indicate the one or more virtual instant tickets that were successfully played.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of allowing a consumer to play a plurality of virtual instant tickets, each virtual instant ticket having a predetermined winning or losing outcome and also having a predefined cost for ticket play, the method comprising:\n (a) loading the plurality of virtual instant tickets to a memory of a microprocessor by loading information for each virtual instant ticket including:\n (i) a validation number of the virtual instant ticket, and \n (ii) the winning or losing outcome of the virtual instant ticket and the value of any winning outcome; \n (b) prior to ticket play, physically providing the microprocessor loaded with the plurality of virtual instant tickets to the consumer so that the consumer is in physical possession of the microprocessor; (c) purchasing a predefined monetary amount of ticket play that allows the consumer to play a portion of virtual instant tickets that corresponds to the cost for ticket play for that portion of virtual instant tickets, the portion being less than all of the virtual instant tickets that were previously loaded to the memory of the microprocessor,\n wherein the remaining portion of virtual instant tickets that were previously loaded to the memory of the microprocessor remain available to be played at a later point in time upon making a subsequent purchase to play an additional portion of the virtual instant tickets; \n (d) initiating communication between the microprocessor and a computing device operated by the consumer that is configured to play one or more of the virtual instant tickets that are in the memory of the microprocessor; (e) playing the one or more virtual instant tickets via interaction of the microprocessor and the computing device and displaying the winning or losing outcome on a display of the computing device; and (f) updating the memory of the microprocessor to indicate the one or more virtual instant tickets that were successfully played.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20548
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15837617', '13223585', '12898821', '14326756', '13223628']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.336070983031398
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4930278480878492
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3517666695370431
- Mean Citation Score: 227.393008
- Max Citation Score: 245.85953
- Similarity Product: 193.36145131140592

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

Dataset: test