PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019511
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of a gaming system and method offer replicating symbols. For example, gaming system generates a plurality of symbols for a play of a game, wherein at least one of the plurality of symbols can be a replicating symbol. Replicating symbols can be used to enhance a game outcome or award for player during a play of the game. The gaming system can determine a path of motion for a generated replicating symbol. The path can be predetermined or dynamically generated for the generated replicating symbols. The gaming system may randomly generate stop positions along the path. The gaming system may deposit copies of the generated replicating symbol at the generated stop positions. The gaming system evaluates the plurality of symbols and any displayed replicating symbols for winning symbol combinations and for determining any awards based on the evaluated winning symbol combinations.

Claim (Index 20):
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having machine instructions stored therein, the instructions being executable by a processor to cause the processor to:\n randomly generate, using a random number generator, a first plurality of symbols; display, using a display device of the housing, the plurality of symbols; determine that a replicating symbol was generated in the plurality of symbols; in response to determining that the replicating symbol is determined to have been generated, determine a distance between a predetermined point of the display device and the replicating symbol; generate and display, using the display device, a connector between the predetermined point of the display device and the replicating symbol, where a length of the connector is based on the determined distance; determine a path in the display device to move the replicating symbol across the displayed plurality of symbols, where the path on the display device is based on a position of the replicating symbol, a location of the predetermined point of the display device, and the length of the connector; randomly determine a stop position for the replicating symbol along the determined path on the display device; display, using the display device, a second replicating symbol at the stop position; determine awards based on the plurality of symbols and the second replicating symbol, where the determination ignores one of the plurality symbols that is in the same position as the second replicating symbol; display, on the display device, the determined awards; and issue value from a value dispenser based on the determined awards.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46774
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15227683', '11018053', '15584563', '12270250', '12268552']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4077807911442846
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5157219185570342
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4185749038855597
- Mean Citation Score: 342.504156
- Max Citation Score: 351.26657
- Similarity Product: 260.64950406837823

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