PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880751
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A gaming machine, a method of controlling a gaming machine, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a program wherein a first game and a second game are related to each other are provided. In a gaming machine, a first area and a second area sharing virtual reel strips are displayed, only the first area is set as a determination area in a first game, and both the first area and the second area are set as determination areas in a second game. Therefore, the first game and the second game can be provided in a form such that they are related.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of controlling a gaming machine for providing a game to a player, the gaming machine includes an acceptor device, a display unit, an operation unit and a controller, the method including the steps of:\n accepting physical media indicative of a monetary value at the acceptor device and responsively establishing a credit balance; displaying, by the display unit, a symbol display area including a first area and a second area, each area including a plurality of columns side by side with symbols displayed in each area, each column having a plurality of cells, the first area and the second area being provided vertically in line with a direction of the columns; providing a set of virtual reel strips, at least one of the virtual reel strips being associated with a shared column of the first area and a shared column of the second area such that the shared column of the first and second areas have mutual continuity; and, rearranging, by the controller, symbols displayed in the symbol display area when an operation by the player is received in the operation unit. wherein the symbols are rearranged in a manner to simulate rotation of the virtual reel strips, wherein the at least one of the virtual reel strips rotates through the respective shared columns, wherein the simulated rotation causes the at least one of the virtual reel strips to rotate through all of the cells of the shared columns, the symbols in the cells forming an outcome.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29167
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14477062', '15179782', '14845038', '15233456', '15389233']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3729124848634517
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5642401721664418
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3920452535937507
- Mean Citation Score: 381.340012
- Max Citation Score: 472.58847
- Similarity Product: 413.3667451089548

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