PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126819
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["463", "013000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the use of game modifiers between game stages of a game played on a gaming device. According to some embodiments, a gaming device is configured to play a multi-stage game of chance. After a first stage is completed and a result for the first stage is determined, a game modifier is altered and applied to a second stage of the game when a predefined criterion is satisfied. The game modifier may modify prizes associated with the second stage of the game by, for example, applying a multiplier to prizes associated with a second stage result, the modifier may alter an aspect of the second stage of the game by, for example, adding or replacing one or more game elements used in evaluating the second stage outcome for prizes, or the modifier may trigger a bonus event.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of operating a gaming device having a game display, a player input device, a wager input device structured to identify and validate currency or currency based tickets, and a processor, the method comprising:\n receiving a wager to play a multi-stage game on the gaming device; displaying a dealt first poker hand on a first stage of the multi-stage game; receiving signals from the player input indicating cards to hold in the dealt poker hand, wherein corresponding cards in a second poker hand on the second stage of the multi-stage game are shown to be identical cards to the held cards from the first poker hand; receiving a signal from the player input device indicating a poker draw; dealing cards to complete the second poker hand on the second game stage of the multi-stage game after receiving the signal indicating the poker draw, where the identical cards corresponding to the held cards from the first poker hand are maintained as part of the second poker hand on the second stage of the multi-stage game; evaluating the second poker hand to determine prizes associated with the second stage of the multi-stage game; altering a first game modifier associated with the first stage of the multi-stage game when a trigger condition based on the evaluation of the second poker hand in the second stage is satisfied; displaying a final first poker hand by replacing cards not held in the dealt first poker hand with draw cards; and evaluating the final first poker hand with the altered first game modifier to determine prizes associated with the first stage of the multi-stage game.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22857
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14834403', '13688023', '14494646', '15162597', '13849467']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.407239985240524
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6084488773261802
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4273608744490897
- Mean Citation Score: 522.3224520000001
- Max Citation Score: 568.6157
- Similarity Product: 538.8713506751418

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