PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940099
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for providing zero, one or more awards in association with one or more dynamic displays of such awards.

Claim (Index 10):
A gaming system comprising:\n a processor; and a memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:\n cause a display, by a display device, of a plurality of reels, wherein one of the plurality of reels is associated with an award display position which is associated with a first total quantity of symbol display positions comprising a first quantity of active symbol display positions and a second quantity of inactive symbol display positions, \n for each of the first quantity of active symbol display positions:\n randomly determine a symbol, and \n cause a display, by the display device, of the randomly determined symbol, \n \n responsive to an occurrence of an additional award opportunity triggering event:\n activate the second quantity of inactive symbol display positions, and for each of these activated symbol display positions:\n randomly determine a symbol, and \n cause a display, by the display device, of the randomly determined symbol, \n \n \n responsive to each of the first total quantify of symbol display positions displaying a designated symbol, increase a credit balance based on an award displayed at the award display position, and \n responsive to less than the first total quantify of symbol display positions displaying the designated symbol and an occurrence of an award display position modification event:\n modify the award display position to be associated with a second total quantity of symbol display positions which is less than the first total quantity of symbol display positions, and \n responsive to each of the second total quantify of symbol display positions associated with the modified award display position displaying the designated symbol, increase the credit balance based on the award displayed at the award display position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.17241
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15707620', '15883090', '15424016', '15707556', '15052511']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3998397082063674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5163453216377436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.411490269549505
- Mean Citation Score: 363.417046
- Max Citation Score: 378.61908
- Similarity Product: 300.49743120316737

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

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