PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16026756
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A gaming machine displays a set of virtual center reels, creating an M×N array of symbols, and an independent set of virtual peripheral reels surrounding the M×N array. The peripheral reels are part of a secondary game, and each peripheral reel displays only one symbol position. The center reels contain at least one trigger symbol for trigging the secondary game. The center reels are displayed on a separate, set-back display to give the illusion of motorized mechanical reels. Awards are granted for winning symbol combinations on the center reels. If the trigger condition exists, a bonus award is granted for winning symbol combinations on the peripheral reels. The bonus award may be based on the number of peripheral symbols that match the displayed trigger symbol or may be based on other criteria. In one embodiment, the trigger symbols are only on one of the center reels.

Claim (Index 1):
A gaming device comprising:\n a first display comprising one of a first display screen for depicting motor driven reels or a physical set of motor driven reels; one or more second displays, separate from the first display, for displaying a set of secondary reels that surrounds the first display on at least three sides of the first display, the first display being set back into the gaming device, relative to the one or more second displays, to create a depth effect for the first display; at least one computer programmed to carry out the following steps:\n spinning and randomly stopping the set of depicted motor driven reels or the physical motor driven reels in the first display to play a primary game; and \n spinning and randomly stopping the set of secondary reels, to randomly display peripheral symbols, to play a secondary game, wherein the peripheral symbols comprise scatter symbols that are not combined with any symbols on the set of depicted motor driven reels or the physical motor driven reels in the first display.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28571
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16026601', '14338792', '10777011', '11464347', '12032915']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.454288697221441
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5760944643449323
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4664692739337901
- Mean Citation Score: 480.483154
- Max Citation Score: 575.7145
- Similarity Product: 437.8096440662742

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