PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019511
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of a gaming system and method offer replicating symbols. For example, gaming system generates a plurality of symbols for a play of a game, wherein at least one of the plurality of symbols can be a replicating symbol. Replicating symbols can be used to enhance a game outcome or award for player during a play of the game. The gaming system can determine a path of motion for a generated replicating symbol. The path can be predetermined or dynamically generated for the generated replicating symbols. The gaming system may randomly generate stop positions along the path. The gaming system may deposit copies of the generated replicating symbol at the generated stop positions. The gaming system evaluates the plurality of symbols and any displayed replicating symbols for winning symbol combinations and for determining any awards based on the evaluated winning symbol combinations.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of operating a gaming system, the method comprising:\n randomly generating, by the processor using a random number generator, a plurality of symbols; displaying, by the processor using a display device of the housing, the plurality of symbols; determining, by the processor, that a replicating symbol was generated in the plurality of symbols; in response to determining that the replicating symbol has been generated, determining, by the processor, a distance between a predetermined point of the display device and the replicating symbol; generating and displaying, by the processor, a connector between the predetermined point of the display device and the replicating symbol, where a length of the connector is based on the determined distance; determining, by the processor, a path on the display device to move the replicating symbol across the displayed plurality of symbols, where the path on the display device is based on a position of the replicating symbol, a location of the predetermined point of the display device, and the length of the connector; randomly determining, by the processor using the random number generator, a stop position for the replicating symbol along the determined path on the display device; displaying, by the processor using the display device, a second replicating symbol at the stop position; determining, by the processor, awards based on the plurality of symbols and the second replicating symbol, where the determination ignores one of the plurality symbols that is in the same position as the second replicating symbol; displaying, by the processor using the display device, the determined awards; and issuing, by the processor using a dispenser, value based on determined awards.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46774
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15227683', '11018053', '15584563', '12270250', '12268552']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3794248645316746
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5134606573878943
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3928284438172966
- Mean Citation Score: 342.504156
- Max Citation Score: 351.26657
- Similarity Product: 259.88957039256934

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

Dataset: test