PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981596
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A gaming system and a method of gaming using a metamorphic reel feature are provided. A game controller is configured to initiate play of the base game, thereby causing a simulated spinning of reels. The game controller changes the base game to a metamorphic reel game. The game controller then creates a morphed reel based on symbols included in two of the reels and replaces those two reels with the morphed reel during the simulated spinning. The game controller then determines a metamorphic reel game outcome based on a metamorphic reel game paytable and a reduced number of reels that includes the morphed reel and awards credit to the player based on the metamorphic reel game outcome.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of electronic gaming implemented using a gaming system, the gaming system including a main display configured to display a wagering game, a player input interface, a credit input mechanism including at least one of a ticket reader, a bill validator, and a coin input mechanism, the credit input mechanism configured to establish a credit balance that is increasable and decreasable based on wagering activity, one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable memory devices, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memory devices, the method comprising:\n initiating play of a base game upon receipt of a credit wager and a player input from the player input interface, thereby causing a simulated spinning of a plurality of adjacent spinnable reels, the base game including the plurality of adjacent spinnable reels, each reel being virtual and having a plurality of circumferentially adjacent game symbol positions, the base game using a base game paytable; initiating a metamorphic reel game, the metamorphic reel game using a metamorphic reel game paytable; morphing a plurality of reels into a lesser number of reels during a simulated spinning by combining symbols from a first reel and symbols from a second reel to form a single resultant morphed reel having the combined symbols; stopping the reels in an order specified by the initiating; determining a metamorphic reel game outcome using a metamorphic reel game paytable; and awarding credit to the player based on the determined metamorphic reel game outcome.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27778
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14694705', '13793680', '12404810', '12617385', '10090685']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.399374058024543
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5099776884662152
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4104344210687102
- Mean Citation Score: 357.70925
- Max Citation Score: 361.5145
- Similarity Product: 305.9851483064294

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