PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16508688
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["463", "026000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to gaming devices having a delayed bonus win determination and methods of operating gaming systems and gaming devices to provide delayed bonus win determinations. Here, contributions to a linked jackpot may be separated from the chance to win the linked jackpot, where the chance to win the linked jackpot can be stored and used at a later time.

Claim (Index 6):
A bonus controller having a jackpot award for use with a plurality of electronic gaming devices comprising:\n a non-transitory memory device configured to store computer-readable instructions; at least one computing processor operatively connected to the plurality of gaming devices, the at least one processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to:\n receive play signals generated by the gaming devices responsive to play by the players; \n update an amount of the linked jackpot based on the received play signals; \n generate a chance to determine a number that awards the jackpot when the determined number corresponds to a predefined trigger number, the chance being generated responsive to a received one of the play signals; \n store the chance generated responsive to the one play signal; \n associate the stored chance with the player whose gaming device generated the one play signal; \n display the updated amount of the linked jackpot on a display screen; \n activate the stored chance for the one player responsive to player operation of an actuator operatively connected to the linked jackpot, including incrementing a bonus count and comparing the bonus count to the number determined by the activated chance; and \n determine if the number determined by the activated chance corresponds to the predefined trigger number for the linked jackpot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.725
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15407113', '12816309', '15199381', '14755196', '16181666']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4481094336265441
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5521223453367365
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4585107247975634
- Mean Citation Score: 448.745096
- Max Citation Score: 453.93173
- Similarity Product: 430.1076421410794

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