PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["463", "017000"]

Abstract:
Games, lotteries, and/or sweepstakes as well as tickets, systems, technologies, and/or methods related thereto. In some embodiments, unique games and/or unique administrations of games and/or unique tickets useful for participating in games. In certain preferred embodiments, games which can be administrated or participated in contemporaneously with an event, such as a sporting event, music performance, or trade show (e.g., at the same time or during a live event). In certain of such preferred embodiments, participants in games make no payment to participate in the games.

Claim (Index 2):
A gaming method comprising the steps of:\n a sponsor displaying an invitation to play a game at a spectator event; providing a network, including data transmission and storage mechanisms, for game contestants to electronically submit digital images for game participation; a plurality of spectators at said spectator event, becoming game contestants and entering said game, by responding to said invitation by generating digital images utilizing a camera, a cellular phone with a built-in camera, a scanner, or a kiosk and electronically submitting said digital images to comprise gaming tickets, and also electronically submitting contestants information to form part of said gaming tickets, to said network, for game participation, said digital images and contestant information being electronically submitted utilizing an MMS message or an internet connection, said digital image being stored on gaming servers; said digital images comprising at least one still image selected from a personal photograph, a family photograph, and a pet photograph; generating a random entry number for each submitted digital image utilizing a random number generator, each said random entry number being derived from digital image information obtained from each said respective, submitted digital image, and affiliating each said derived random entry number with each said digital image from which it is derived; electronically encrypting said digital images and said contestant information together to form a plurality of independent information capsules comprising a plurality of digital image gaming tickets, each said digital image gaming ticket corresponding to an individual entrant of said game; selecting a winning digital image gaming ticket from said plurality of digital image gaming tickets by randomly selecting a random winner number in a winner selection phase and matching said random winner number with one of said plurality of derived random entry numbers; decrypting said information capsule comprising said winning digital image gaming ticket and obtaining information about the gaming contestant which entered said digital image winning ticket into said game from said decrypted information capsule; and wherein because gaming entry is accomplished electronically by submitting said digital images and said contestant information via said MMS message or said internet connection, new games can be initiated and completed in compressed time periods.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74576
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13737857', '13518831', '14880538', '14880562', '15910424']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3432243018666621
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6872428662956037
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3776261583095562
- Mean Citation Score: 446.10005
- Max Citation Score: 725.01215
- Similarity Product: 720.5507703912587

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