PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895670
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["463", "016000"]

Abstract:
Described herein is a gaming machine and, a method of gaming thereon, comprising: a symbol selector for selecting a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols for display during play of a base game; an outcome evaluator for monitoring play of the base game, wherein a feature game is triggered in response to a trigger event during the base game, the feature game having at least one predefined rule; a rule modifier for modifying said predefined rule in response to a determination that said at least one predefined rule is to be modified before play of said feature game; and a controller for initiating play of said feature game based on the modified rule.

Claim (Index 29):
A method of playing a feature game triggered within a wagering game played on a gaming machine, the gaming machine includes a credit input mechanism configured to receive a physical item representing a monetary value for establishing a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable and decreasable based on a wagering activity, a credit meter configured to monitor the credit balance, a memory, a player interface, a game controller, and a payout mechanism, wherein the memory is configured to store a plurality of free game options, the method comprising:\n determining, via the game controller, if a feature trigger event or a super feature trigger event occurs; displaying at the player interface the plurality of free game options when the feature trigger event or the super feature trigger event occurs, wherein each of the plurality of free game options has a corresponding number of free games and a corresponding plurality of multipliers; and wherein, if the super feature trigger event has occurred, the game controller increases the corresponding number of free games and removes a lowest of the corresponding plurality of multipliers for each of the plurality of free game options; receiving, via the player interface, a player selected free game option from the plurality of free game options; randomly selecting, via the game controller, a random multiplier from the corresponding plurality of multipliers corresponding to the player selected free game option; conducting, via the game controller, the feature game when the feature trigger event has occurred or a super feature game when the super feature trigger event has occurred, based on the player selected free game option; and determining if a prize is to be awarded via the payout mechanism.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10169
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14821504', '15425765', '15428813', '14821952', '11748998']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3678383955119944
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.557457105715547
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3868002665323496
- Mean Citation Score: 348.916258
- Max Citation Score: 470.30908
- Similarity Product: 428.2146185437608

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

Dataset: test