PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16131952
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["463", "011000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments related to conducting a wagering game according to the rules of a base game includes defining a finite set of game indicia. In some embodiments the player plays multiple sequential game hand by placing a wager, receiving game indicia from the finite set cumulatively excluding any game indicia previously dealt, playing the game hand to completion, collecting the game indicia from the player and excluding the dealt game indicia from further play, and displaying at least the excluded game indicia or any winning combinations precluded by the excluded game indicia. In some embodiments the game hands continue in sequence until a restoration event, which may include a manually triggered restoration or an automatic restoration event that restores the excluded game indicia. Other embodiments are also described.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for conducting a wagering game for a player in accordance with the rules of a base game defining a winning hand, comprising:\n conducting a game hand for said player comprising:\n (a) receiving a wager from said player; \n (b) selecting game indicia to be dealt to said player by selecting a respective value of each indicia with reference to an available inventory of indicia and a respective suit of each indicia without reference to the available inventory of indicia; \n (c) dealing the game indicia to said player, and decreasing the available inventory of indicia having a same value as each of the respective values of the indicia dealt in the game hand and indicia dealt in previous game hands, if any; \n (d) conducting said game hand for said player to completion according to said base game and resolving said wager based at least in part on whether said game hand forms a winning hand; \n (e) decreasing an inventory of available indicia having a same value as each of the dealt indicia and all game indicia dealt in previous game hands, if any, for play in a subsequent game hand; and \n (f) displaying at least one of: the available inventory of said game indicia that have been decreased in availability or winning hands eliminated as a result of said decreased availability; \n conducting at least one additional sequential game hand of steps (a)-(f) using said inventory of said game indicia until a restoration event, said restoration event including at least a manual restoration event; and upon a restoration event, restoring the inventory of indicia.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91549
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12252488', '11007108', '12263768', '12257649', '12255123']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3388999582755846
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.531346922415514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3581446546895775
- Mean Citation Score: 348.376994
- Max Citation Score: 393.34393
- Similarity Product: 377.8931939114374

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