PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986192
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["463", "016000"]

Abstract:
A gaming machine comprises a symbol selector for selecting a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols for display during play of a base game, the set of symbols including a plurality of non-configurable symbols and a plurality of configurable symbols; a random number generator for generating random prize values; a value assigner for assigning a generated random prize value to each selected configurable symbol; and an outcome evaluator for monitoring play of the base game, wherein a feature game is triggered in response to a trigger event, the trigger event comprising a predefined number of the plurality of configurable symbols being selected by the symbol selector for display. During the feature game, the symbol selector is further configured to 1) hold the selected configurable symbols that comprise the trigger event on the display; 2) remove at least one of the selected non-configurable symbols from the display; and 3) replace any removed non-configurable symbol with another symbol selected from the set of symbols.

Claim (Index 16):
The electronic method of  claim 10 , wherein said awarding the feature game award comprises awarding a grand progressive award when the threshold number of held configurable symbols is equal to the plurality of corresponding display positions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34211
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15428813', '15425765', '14821952', '14939074', '14821504']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4385319616225716
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5474731567150616
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4494260811318206
- Mean Citation Score: 412.095344
- Max Citation Score: 490.925
- Similarity Product: 339.58955103755

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

Dataset: test