PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16297954
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a plurality of reels, and a display. The processor may initiate base game play comprising the display, via a reel spin, of symbols relative to one or more of a first set of symbol locations. If a near bonus event triggering condition is met, additional symbols are displayed in a second set of symbol locations comprising the first set of symbol locations and one or more expanded symbol locations. If a bonus event triggering outcome is then received relative to the symbols displayed in the second set of symbol locations, a bonus event is initiated comprising free spins of reels to display symbols in the expanded second set of symbol positions.

Claim (Index 1):
An electronic gaming device comprising:\n a memory; at least one wager accepting device configured to accept a physical item associated with a monetary value to increase a credit balance at the electronic gaming device; a display; a plurality of reels; and a processor configured to execute machine readable instruction stored on the memory to cause the electronic gaming device to present a game having a base game and a bonus event which is initiated in response to receipt of a bonus event triggering outcome in the base game, comprising:\n initiating a base game comprising at least one base game spin where the base game spin moves the plurality of reels to display, via said display, symbols in one or more locations of a first set of symbol locations; \n determining if said base game spin resulted in the displayed symbols displaying symbols comprising a near bonus event initiating condition; \n when a near bonus event initiating condition is received, displaying symbols in a second set of symbol locations comprising said first set of symbol locations and one or more additional expanded symbol locations; \n determining if said symbols displayed in said second set of symbol locations comprises a bonus event triggering outcome; \n when a bonus event triggering outcome is received, triggering a bonus event comprising at least one bonus spin where the bonus spin moves the plurality of reels and stops a movement of the plurality of reels to display, via said display, symbols in said second set of symbol locations; \n determining if at least one winning combination of symbols is displayed in said second set of symbol locations; and \n increasing said credit balance by an award for said at least one winning combination.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28814
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14836838', '14807962', '13963165', '14101993', '15715150']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4243872349306372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6130622448080788
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4432547359183814
- Mean Citation Score: 416.762608
- Max Citation Score: 542.9008
- Similarity Product: 485.285777747345

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