PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16226248
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["463", "009000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for a board game or an electronic version of the same, including a match-3 component and a strategy game piece component. The game may be implemented as a physical board game or as a computer-executed application. Matches of three or more tokens or icons result in an effect that is applied to game pieces of the player who made the match and/or an opponent of the player who made the match. The effect on game pieces resulting from a match are limited to game pieces positioned within the rows and/or columns that correspond to the rows and/or columns within which the matched tokens or icons are positioned.

Claim (Index 14):
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:\n cause a display device to display a first game-piece field; enable a user to strategically position at least one game piece character within the first game-piece field; cause the display device to display a match-3 field with icons, the icons including a first icon and a second icon; enable the user to move the icons to form matches of three or more of the icons; during a movement phase of gameplay, enable the user to move at least one of the game piece characters within the first game-piece field to a position having a strategic advantage; during a matching phase of gameplay, enable the user to form a match of three or more icons by enabling the user to swap a first position of the first icon with a second position of the second icon; identifying an effect from a plurality of effects, the effect being associated with a match of three or more icons along at least one of a row or column of the match-3 field; applying the identified effect to at least one of game piece character of the user, that is positioned within a row or column in which at least one of the matched icons is positioned, wherein applying the identified effect increases the strategic value of the at least one game piece character of the user; and in response to determining that: (a) a game piece character of the user having a special power is positioned within the game-piece field; and (b) the game piece character of the user being affected is within the row or column in which at least one of the matched icons is positioned, amplifying the increase in strategic value of the at least one game piece character of the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15266748', '14316274', '14609971', '14183997', '14029558']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3464755724770045
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5316144491790001
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3649894601472041
- Mean Citation Score: 220.48134600000003
- Max Citation Score: 393.0375
- Similarity Product: 384.58066102936857

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

Dataset: test