PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926062
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
Certain embodiments provide for replacing all regular symbols located in respective symbol positions comprising a predetermined set of symbol positions of a symbol matrix (e.g., all the regular symbols on a reel of a reeled slot machine-type game) with at least one special symbol (e.g., a wild symbol which may be output as taking up the entirety of the reel) if the predetermined set of symbol positions (e.g., the symbol positions comprising the reel) satisfy a qualifying condition. In one embodiment the qualifying condition is that a threshold number of symbols have been removed from (or replaced on) the predetermined set of symbol positions within a predetermined timeframe or game event (e.g., that a threshold number of symbols have been removed from a particular reel during a cascade feature).

Claim (Index 1):
A method for providing wild symbols in an electronic game, comprising:\n (a) providing, by a game server, a game interface comprising a plurality of symbol positions, the plurality of symbol positions arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, each column of the plurality of columns representing a reel of a slot-machine type game; (b) outputting, by the game server, a first outcome for a first game event based on an initial wager; (c) identifying, by the game server based on the first outcome and for each column of the game interface, a number of symbols (i) displayed in the symbol positions comprising the column and (ii) removed from the symbol positions as a result of a game feature of the first game event, wherein the removal is distinct from an initiation of a new game event and is part of the first game event; (d) updating, by the game server and for each column based on the number corresponding to each respective column, a removed symbol count; (e) determining, by the game server and for a particular column of the plurality of columns, that the removed symbol count is at least equal to a threshold count, thereby identifying the particular column as a qualifying reel that is defined as the qualifying reel because the number of symbols removed from the particular column during the particular game event is at least equal to the threshold count; and (f) replacing, by the game server and on the qualifying reel, each of the symbols with at least one special symbol.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13235
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14829900', '15180511', '14028884', '14028739', '14028750']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3186597946096378
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4930870365543768
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3361025188041117
- Mean Citation Score: 254.256794
- Max Citation Score: 282.62326
- Similarity Product: 218.24378379110453

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

Dataset: test