PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971232
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A gaming machine that provides an operation unit, a display unit that displays a plurality of symbols in a determination area, changes and stops a plurality of symbols displayed on the display unit according to an operation of a player received from an operation unit, and a control unit that pays a payout according to the symbol stopped inside of the determination area, a control unit displays an object that shows a symbol inside of a virtual three-dimensional space that extends a column of the determination area in a depth direction on the display unit, aligns a plurality of objects in a depth direction in a non-determination area and the determination area, and changes a plurality of symbols by moving the plurality of objects along in a depth direction.

Claim (Index 6):
A control method for a gaming machine, the gaming machine including a display unit, a memory device and a game control unit, the display unit being configured to display a game screen including computer generated graphics, the memory device being configured to store a game execution program including computer instructions for generating the game feature, the game control unit for executing the game execution program to provide a game to the player, the game having a primary game and a special game, the game control unit coupled to the operation unit, the display unit and the memory device, the game control unit includes a processor programmed to perform the steps of:\n displaying a game structure on the game screen on the display unit, the game structure including a grid having a plurality cells arranged in a plurality of rows and columns; initiating the primary game, the game structure being displayed two-dimensionally; randomly selecting a symbol for each one of the cells to form an outcome of the primary game; and, detecting an occurrence of a triggering condition, in response to the detecting the occurrence of the triggering condition, the processor performing the steps of: converting and displaying the game structure three-dimensionally; initiating the special game using the three-dimensional game structure; randomly determining symbol for each cell in the game structure to form an outcome of the primary game.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14845038', '15233456', '15179782', '15389233', '15210618']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4012425017443399
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5290312144462486
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4140213730145308
- Mean Citation Score: 335.491298
- Max Citation Score: 403.05203
- Similarity Product: 338.48645819910644

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