PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000585
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["463", "016000"]

Abstract:
An electronic gaming machine that awards additional opportunities to extend game play. The electronic gaming machine displays a number of games having independent game outcomes. When one of the game outcomes includes a winning combination of symbols, symbols at display positions that form the winning combination of symbols and symbols at corresponding or matching display positions of other game outcomes are replaced with symbols. The game outcomes with the replaced symbols are re-evaluated for winning combinations.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of extending game play of a wagering game on an electronic gaming machine having a display device, a game controller, and a credit input mechanism, the credit input mechanism being configured to receive a physical item representing a monetary value for establishing a credit balance that is increasable and decreasable based on wagering activity, the method comprising the steps of:\n controlling, via the game controller, the display device to provide a plurality of display areas, each display area having a plurality of display positions, wherein each display position in one display area corresponds to a display position in display areas other than the one display area; initiating a game in response to a wager, the game comprising the steps of: (a) adjusting the credit balance in accordance with the wager; (b) displaying, via the game controller, symbols selected from a set of symbols at each of the display positions in the plurality of display areas; (c) determining, via the game controller, if the symbols displayed in one display area of the plurality of display areas include one or more winning symbol combinations; (d) in response to each determined winning symbol combination in the one display area, displaying an animation for each display position of the respective winning symbol combination, the animation marking the respective display position in the one display area and each corresponding display position in the plurality of display areas different from the one display area for removal, and displaying a path between the respective display position and the each corresponding display position; (e) creating one or more blank display positions in the one display area by removing, via the game controller, any symbols that form a winning symbol combination from the one display area; (f) for any symbol removed from the one display area, creating corresponding blank display positions in the plurality of display areas different from the one display area by removing, via the game controller, symbols at the corresponding display positions in all display areas different from the one display area; (g) after creating the one or more blank display positions in the one display area and the corresponding blank display positions in the plurality of display areas different from the one display area, displaying, via the game controller, symbols in the one or more blank display positions in the one display area and the corresponding blank display positions in the plurality of display areas different from the one display area; (h) repeating steps (c) through (g) until an end condition occurs; and (i) adjusting the credit balance in accordance with any winning outcomes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15619793', '13628912', '14033038', '14821536', '15331558']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3817841571446659
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4704266529196301
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3906484067221624
- Mean Citation Score: 266.8242
- Max Citation Score: 267.63443
- Similarity Product: 239.68070310258685

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

Dataset: test