PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918517
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a reel-based game and employing an award evaluation for a symbol based on a total quantity of reels in a set of reels each displaying an instance of that symbol and a total quantity of instances of that symbol displayed on the reels of the set. When performing the award evaluation of the present disclosure, the gaming system determines any award for a symbol regardless of the relative position of the displayed instances of that symbol on the reels and also regardless of the particular quantity of instances of that symbol displayed by any individual reel.

Claim (Index 1):
A gaming system comprising:\n a processor; and a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:\n cause a display device to display a plurality of reels in association with a plurality of symbol display positions, and \n upon an occurrence of a triggering event:\n cause the display device to display the reels spinning and then stopping such that the reels display, at the symbol display positions, a plurality of symbols randomly selected from a set of symbols associated with the reels, \n independent of any payline award evaluation, independent of any scatter pay award evaluation and independent of any multiway award evaluation, determine an award associated with the symbols displayed at the symbol display positions, wherein the determined award is based on a first quantity of the reels which display a first designated symbol of the set of symbols and a first quantity of instances of that first designated symbol displayed at the symbol display positions associated with that first quantity of the reels, and \n cause the display device to display the determined award.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13596932', '13596921', '13596899', '14643879', '14964113']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3881921424508573
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5301908063048142
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4023920088362531
- Mean Citation Score: 405.637238
- Max Citation Score: 412.72995
- Similarity Product: 278.8894292727649

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

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