PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16194011
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["463", "021000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a gaming machine, methods of gaming systems. In particular, a gaming machine which provides a spinning reel game of chance is provided. Certain symbols are controlled to expand to cover other symbols of virtual spinning reels, in order to provide the player with a dynamic visual game appearance.

Claim (Index 1):
A gaming machine, comprising:\n a display device; a credit input mechanism configured to receive a physical item associated with a monetary value and establish a credit balance based on said received physical item; a player interface that enables a player to place a wager on a play of a game and to initiate the play of the game; a game controller executing instructions from a memory which cause the game controller to at least:\n display a plurality of display positions on the display device, the plurality of display positions arranged to form a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; \n select a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols to display in the plurality of display positions, the set of symbols including at least one expandable symbol and a plurality of non-expanding symbols; \n determine that the selected plurality of symbols include at least one expandable symbol occupying one entire column of the plurality of columns, determine that a first symbol combination of the at least one expandable symbol occupying one entire column and a plurality of the non-expanding symbols displayed in the plurality of display positions forms a first outcome; \n in response to determining that the first symbol combination forms the first outcome, further determine if expanding the expandable symbol into at least one other display position of the plurality of display positions adjacent to the one entire column results in a second outcome; \n in response to determining that expanding the expandable symbol results in the second outcome, cause the expandable symbol to expand in size so as to replace a symbol displayed at the at least one other display position of the plurality of display positions adjacent to the one entire column, wherein the second outcome is a winning outcome formed by a second symbol combination of the expanded symbol and one or more of the plurality of non-expanding symbols; \n adjust the credit balance based at least in part on an amount associated with the first outcome and an amount associated with the second outcome; and \n a payout mechanism configured to dispense a payout of the credit balance from the gaming machine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43902
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14869421', '12239490', '14866051', '14821999', '14694705']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3369258865845537
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5522124906000779
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3584545469861061
- Mean Citation Score: 358.65756600000014
- Max Citation Score: 448.5023
- Similarity Product: 389.0056817360044

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