PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000585
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["463", "016000"]

Abstract:
An electronic gaming machine that awards additional opportunities to extend game play. The electronic gaming machine displays a number of games having independent game outcomes. When one of the game outcomes includes a winning combination of symbols, symbols at display positions that form the winning combination of symbols and symbols at corresponding or matching display positions of other game outcomes are replaced with symbols. The game outcomes with the replaced symbols are re-evaluated for winning combinations.

Claim (Index 10):
An electronic method of extending game play on a gaming machine, the gaming machine includes a credit input mechanism configured to receive a physical item representing a monetary value for establishing a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable and decreasable based on a wagering activity, a credit meter configured to monitor the credit balance, a display device configured to display a first plurality of display positions and a second plurality of display positions, each display position of the first plurality of display positions having a corresponding display position at the second plurality of display positions, a memory storing a set of symbols, and a game controller, the method comprising:\n displaying a first game instance and a second game instance at the first plurality of display positions and the second plurality of display positions, respectively; evaluating, via the game controller, the first game instance for a winning combination of symbols displayed at a first group of display positions in the first plurality of display positions; and in response to the first game instance having the winning combination of symbols in the first group of display positions:\n displaying, for each display position of the first group of display positions, one or more objects originating from the respective display position and landing at a corresponding display position in a second group of display positions of the second set of display positions that corresponds to the first group of display positions; \n replacing the winning combination of symbols in the first group of display positions with a first plurality of symbols; and \n replacing a second plurality of symbols displayed at the second group of display positions with a third plurality of symbols.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15619793', '13628912', '14033038', '14821536', '15331558']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.381276010354331
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4730667570802386
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3904550850269218
- Mean Citation Score: 266.8242
- Max Citation Score: 267.63443
- Similarity Product: 230.9309549729044

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

Dataset: test