PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16008902
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["273", "14900R"]

Abstract:
Card handling devices may include a card shuffling apparatus and a card output portion having a card buffer area positioned at an interface of the card shuffling apparatus and the card output portion. The card output portion may be configured to move relative to the card shuffling apparatus and alter the orientation of the card buffer area. Card handling devices having a substantially flat card output area may include an interface portion having an at least substantially flat draw surface. The substantially flat card output area may permit playing cards to be drawn from an outlet of the substantially flat card output area in a plurality of at least substantially horizontal directions. Methods of shuffling playing cards may include altering an orientation of a card buffer area and inserting cards into the card buffer area at both a top and a bottom of a group of cards within the card buffer area.

Claim (Index 10):
A card handling device for a gaming table comprising:\n a housing for mounting to a gaming table, the housing comprising a card intake area to receive cards to be shuffled and a card output area for a dealer to take cards from the card handling device for dealing a game of cards at the table, the card intake area and card output area disposed to be arranged at the top of the gaming table when the housing is mounted to a table; a card shuffling apparatus to receive cards from the card intake area; a card buffer area to receive and hold a group of cards from the card shuffling apparatus; a card output portion to transport cards, one-at-a-time, from the card buffer area to the card output area; an apparatus configured to alter an orientation of the card buffer area to receive cards at either the top or bottom of the group of cards from the card shuffling apparatus to alter the arrangement of cards in the group; a sensor to provide a signal in response to removal of a card from the card output area by a dealer; and a processor to receive the signal from the sensor and in response thereto control the card output portion to transport another card from the card buffer area to the card output area, the processor configured to control the card shuffling apparatus to re-supply cards to the card buffer area to maintain the group of cards therein for supply to the card output area, wherein cards are continuously supplied to the card output area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90741
- Patent Class: 273.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14959536', '15968473', '13270109', '15933059', '10978049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6026044762586429
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5597325055689165
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5983172791896703
- Mean Citation Score: 328.718722
- Max Citation Score: 426.2981
- Similarity Product: 394.72579233818647

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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