PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16008902
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["273", "14900R"]

Abstract:
Card handling devices may include a card shuffling apparatus and a card output portion having a card buffer area positioned at an interface of the card shuffling apparatus and the card output portion. The card output portion may be configured to move relative to the card shuffling apparatus and alter the orientation of the card buffer area. Card handling devices having a substantially flat card output area may include an interface portion having an at least substantially flat draw surface. The substantially flat card output area may permit playing cards to be drawn from an outlet of the substantially flat card output area in a plurality of at least substantially horizontal directions. Methods of shuffling playing cards may include altering an orientation of a card buffer area and inserting cards into the card buffer area at both a top and a bottom of a group of cards within the card buffer area.

Claim (Index 21):
The method of shuffling cards of  claim 20 , further comprising delivering the at least one playing card that was added to the top of the group of playing cards to a card output area prior to removing any of the other playing cards in the group of playing cards in the card buffer area from in the card buffer area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90741
- Patent Class: 273.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14959536', '15968473', '13270109', '15933059', '10978049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.601974910936548
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5608948312854912
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5978669029714423
- Mean Citation Score: 328.718722
- Max Citation Score: 426.2981
- Similarity Product: 406.62562468715913

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

Dataset: test