PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884375
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
Systems and method for providing a slot-type game in which a game outcome includes a symbol displayed in each cell and a randomly determined background feature in one or more cells, wherein the symbol remains in the foreground.

Claim (Index 9):
A gaming system, comprising:\n a housing; at least one display device supported by the housing; one or more input devices; at least one processor; and at least one memory device that stores a plurality of symbols, a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to communicate with the at least one display device and the one or more input devices to: (a) establish a credit balance through the one or more input devices; (b) receive a wager through the one or more input devices to initiate play of a wagering game, the credit balance being decreasable by the wager; (c) display an outcome of an instance of play of the wagering game, wherein the displayed game outcome includes a representation of adjacent virtual reel strips, the adjacent virtual reel strips forming an array comprising rows and columns defining a plurality of cells, each cell defining a symbol display area; (d) determining a symbol of the plurality of symbols for display in each symbol display area; (e) randomly determine one or more symbol display areas to display a background feature in the entirety of the symbol display area, wherein each symbol in the symbol display area having the background feature is displayed as being in the foreground with respect to the background feature; (f) determine an award outcome based on the randomly generated symbols in the game outcome, the credit balance being increasable by the determined award outcome; and (g) actuate a bonus feature responsive to at least a preset amount of occurrences of the background feature in the game outcome, wherein the bonus feature results in an enhanced award outcome.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.33333
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15883090', '13422813', '14885608', '12513227', '13063220']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4331654983237567
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5463273120703483
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4444816796984159
- Mean Citation Score: 406.94351
- Max Citation Score: 443.4954
- Similarity Product: 427.18649422008986

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