PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981596
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A gaming system and a method of gaming using a metamorphic reel feature are provided. A game controller is configured to initiate play of the base game, thereby causing a simulated spinning of reels. The game controller changes the base game to a metamorphic reel game. The game controller then creates a morphed reel based on symbols included in two of the reels and replaces those two reels with the morphed reel during the simulated spinning. The game controller then determines a metamorphic reel game outcome based on a metamorphic reel game paytable and a reduced number of reels that includes the morphed reel and awards credit to the player based on the metamorphic reel game outcome.

Claim (Index 1):
An electronic gaming system comprising:\n a main display configured to display a wagering game comprising a plurality of adjacent spinnable reels, each spinnable reel being virtual and having a plurality of adjacent game symbol positions within the reel; a player input interface configured to receive a player input; a credit input mechanism including at least one of a ticket reader, a bill acceptor, and a coin input mechanism, the credit input mechanism configured to receive a physical item representing a monetary value for establishing a credit balance used for a credit wager, the credit wager initiating play of a base game; a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon; a game controller communicatively coupled to the display, the player input interface, the credit input mechanism, and the tangible non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the game controller, upon execution of the instructions, is configured to:\n initiate play of the base game upon receipt of the credit wager and a player input from the player input interface, thereby causing a simulated spinning of the plurality of adjacent spinnable reels; \n change the base game to a metamorphic reel game; \n create a morphed reel based on symbols included in a first and a second reel of the plurality of adjacent spinnable reels; \n replace the first and the second reel with the morphed reel in the metamorphic reel game during the simulated spinning; \n determine a metamorphic reel game outcome based on a metamorphic reel game paytable and a reduced number of reels that includes the morphed reel; and \n award credit to the player based on the metamorphic reel game outcome.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27778
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14694705', '13793680', '12404810', '12617385', '10090685']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3991354887062547
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5096990237813673
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.410191842213766
- Mean Citation Score: 357.70925
- Max Citation Score: 361.5145
- Similarity Product: 318.46205394649513

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