PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986052
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["463", "011000"]

Abstract:
A game and gaming machine include a card buy/sell feature in which cards which are dealt to a player are assigned either a BUY option or a SELL option. In accordance with the BUY option, the player may elect to obtain a replacement card upon payment of a designated price. In accordance with the SELL option, the player may select to sell the card and obtain a replacement card for payment to them of the designated price. The feature may be applied to games such as blackjack and poker to increase the stakes and strategy associated with play of the game.

Claim (Index 1):
A gaming device configured to present a game with a card buy/sell feature, comprising:\n a monetary funds accepting mechanism for accepting monetary funds in creating a player credit balance; at least one display device; at least one player input device; a memory device; a controller; and machine-readable code stored in said memory device and executable by said controller to in response to a wager placed by said player from said player credit balance, cause said at least one display device to display an initial player hand of at least a first card and a second card; generate in real time a value relative to each card of said initial player hand, the value relative to each card comprising a buy value or a sell value, and to cause said at least one display device to display a buy/sell option relative to each card of said initial player hand, wherein the buy/sell options comprise a first option to buy a card at the buy value and a second option to sell a card at the sell value; accept input from said player via said at least one player input device of a selected buy/sell option; debit or credit said player credit balance based upon said buy value or said sell value of said selected buy/sell option; replace said card in said initial player hand associated with said selected buy/sell option; finalize said player's hand; and determine an outcome of said game with reference to said finalized player hand.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94545
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14964150', '13898112', '13173611', '13173583', '14204499']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4283144534627073
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4861660456517732
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4340996126816139
- Mean Citation Score: 290.077548
- Max Citation Score: 296.3701200000001
- Similarity Product: 252.40707493194589

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