PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["463", "017000"]

Abstract:
Games, lotteries, and/or sweepstakes as well as tickets, systems, technologies, and/or methods related thereto. In some embodiments, unique games and/or unique administrations of games and/or unique tickets useful for participating in games. In certain preferred embodiments, games which can be administrated or participated in contemporaneously with an event, such as a sporting event, music performance, or trade show (e.g., at the same time or during a live event). In certain of such preferred embodiments, participants in games make no payment to participate in the games.

Claim (Index 1):
A gaming method comprising the steps of:\n a sponsor displaying an advertisement accompanied by a game invitation in association with a spectator event; providing a network, including data transmission and storage mechanisms, for game contestants to electronically submit digital images for game participation; a plurality of spectators of said spectator event, becoming game contestants and entering said game, by generating a digital image utilizing a camera, a cellular phone with a built-in camera, a scanner, or a kiosk and electronically submitting said digital images representing lottery tickets, as well as contestant information, to said network, for game participation, said digital images comprising at least one still image selected from a personal photograph, a family photograph, and a pet photograph, said digital images being electronically submitted utilizing an MMS message or an internet connection, said digital images being stored on lottery servers; generating a random entry number for each submitted digital image utilizing a random number generator, each said random entry number being derived from digital image information obtained from each said respective, submitted digital image, and affiliating each said derived random entry number with each said digital image from which it is derived; electronically processing said digital images and contestant information and said derived random entry number, utilizing software provided on said lottery contestants' computer(s) or mobile device(s) or upon receipt of said digital images by a server of said lottery provider, to form a plurality of information capsules comprising a plurality of digital image lottery tickets, each said digital image lottery ticket corresponding to an individual entrant of said game; entering said plurality of digital image lottery tickets into an electronic batch; randomly selecting a random winner number in a winner selection phase and matching said random winner number with one of said plurality of derived random entry numbers to thereby determine a winning ticket of said lottery; and wherein because lottery entry is accomplished electronically by submitting said digital images via said MMS message or said internet connection, new lotteries can be initiated and completed in compressed time periods.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74576
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13737857', '13518831', '14880538', '14880562', '15910424']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3457520789338765
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6805277275746378
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3792296437979526
- Mean Citation Score: 446.10005
- Max Citation Score: 725.01215
- Similarity Product: 700.0269289834768

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