PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989584
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["273", "12100A"]

Abstract:
A method of determining duration of a play session is described herein using a ball saver. An elapsed game time is tracked and a current round of play identified. Using the current round of play and the elapsed game time, a save time is determined. Finally, an autosave for a duration equal to the save time is activated using mechanical stop, flippers, or programmatic solutions.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of determining duration of a play session on a pinball machine comprising:\n initiating a play session on the pinball machine, the play session divided into a plurality of rounds and occurring on a playfield of the pinball machine; tracking an elapsed game time for the play session; identifying a current round of play as a first, intermediate, or final round of play; determining a save time based on the current round of play and the elapsed game time; and activating an autosave for a duration equal to the save time at the initiation of the current round of play, wherein for the duration equal to the save time the autosave prevents an ending of the current round of play; wherein determining the save time for an intermediate round or a final round is proportional to the ratio of the difference between an ideal game time and the elapsed game time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7381
- Patent Class: 273.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13756014', '15925315', '13933590', '13866488', '15259742']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5478415973777782
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4904116645049539
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5420986040904958
- Mean Citation Score: 182.674848
- Max Citation Score: 189.71208
- Similarity Product: 124.07979366309642

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

Dataset: test