PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056721
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment may involve selecting a set of symbols associated with an outcome event of a reel-based game. The reel-based game may be executed on behalf of a client machine, and selecting the set of symbols may involve spinning a plurality of reels to determine the outcome event. The embodiment may further involve determining that the set of symbols includes a predetermined symbol on a designated reel and does not include any winning combination. The embodiment may also involve, possibly in response to determining that the set of symbols includes the predetermined symbol on the designated reel and does not include any winning combination, replacing one or more symbols in the set of symbols with predetermined symbols such that the symbol set after replacement includes a winning combination.

Claim (Index 19):
A gaming system configured for symbol replacement in a reel-based game, wherein the reel-based game involves spinning a plurality of reels to determine outcome events, the gaming system comprising:\n a plurality of gaming devices each including at least one display device and a plurality of input devices including (i) an acceptor of a physical item associated with a monetary value, (ii) a validator configured to identify the physical item, and (iii) a cash-out button actuatable to cause an initiation of a payout associated with a credit account; one or more gaming device processors; and one or more gaming device memory devices storing (i) respective pluralities of symbols for the reels and (ii) a plurality of gaming device instructions executable by the one or more gaming device processors to perform operations comprising:\n selecting a set of symbols associated with an outcome event of the reel-based game; \n determining that the set of symbols includes a predetermined symbol on a predetermined reel of the plurality of reels and does not include any winning combination; and \n in response to determining that the set of symbols includes the predetermined symbol on the predetermined reel and does not include any winning combination, replacing one or more symbols in the set of symbols with instances of the predetermined symbol such that the set of symbols after replacement includes a winning combination.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36842
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15487869', '15487838', '15487022', '15140945', '15485984']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.44803516093101
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5868266948058838
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4619143143184973
- Mean Citation Score: 448.2052440000001
- Max Citation Score: 487.95776
- Similarity Product: 466.6061236710359

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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