PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916038
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A gaming machine including a display device and game controller is provided. The display device includes reels having display positions for presenting symbols that include non-blank symbols and blank symbols. The game controller is configured to spin the reels horizontally to obtain a first game outcome including a first arrangement of the symbols at the display positions. In response to a determination that the first arrangement includes blank symbols, the game controller is configured to determine whether horizontally shifting non-blank symbols in either direction with respect to the blank symbols in each reel results in an optimal win. The game controller horizontally shifts the non-blank symbols with respect to the blank symbols in each reel to obtain a second game outcome in response to a determination that the shifting results in the optimal win. The game controller increases a credit balance by an award associated with the optimal win.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein the optimal win corresponds with the arrangement of the symbols in one or more of a plurality of vertical play lines of the plurality of the reels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51613
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14033038', '14814471', '13963165', '15274582', '13783566']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3438490360825101
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4998278904620539
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3594469215204645
- Mean Citation Score: 282.15034
- Max Citation Score: 290.21042
- Similarity Product: 215.84992613176945

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