PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976747
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A system apparatus and method which provides a player of a gaming system the ability to increase their wager for a guaranteed wild reel. The system apparatus and method may increase the number of reels that may become a wild reel based on the player increasing their wager. A system apparatus and method which provides a player of a non-wagering or social gaming system the ability to increase their virtual wager for a guaranteed wild reel is also contemplated.

Claim (Index 11):
A gaming system comprising:\n at least one display device; at least one processor; and at least one memory device storing a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor causes the at least one processor to:\n validate a receiving of a physical indicia of monetary value; \n receive an electronic communication to begin a new wagering game; \n determine a wager associated with the new wagering game; \n correlate the associated wager to one of a plurality of different qualifying wager levels; \n cause the at least one display device to display a plurality of reels; \n cause a number of the displayed plurality of reels to be highlighted based on the correlated qualifying wager level, wherein each of a plurality of the different qualifying wager levels causes a different number of the displayed plurality of reels to be highlighted; \n cause the at least one display device to display the spinning of the plurality of reels; \n when the number of highlighted reels is equal to one, determine that the highlighted reel is a wild reel; \n when the number of highlighted reels is equal to two, determine, based on a probability associated with each of the two highlighted reels, which of the two highlighted reels is a wild reel, wherein the probability associated with each of the two highlighted reels is different; \n when the number of highlighted reels is greater than two, determine, based on a probability associated with each of the greater than two highlighted reels, which of the greater than two highlighted reels is a wild reel, wherein the probability associated with a plurality of the greater than two highlighted reels is different; \n cause the at least one display device to display any determined wild reel to stop and indicate that the entire reel is wild; \n cause each of the reels not determined to be a wild reel to stop; \n determine the outcome of the game based on the stopped reels; and \n when the determined outcome is a winning outcome, provide an award to the player based at least in part on the determined outcome and the determined wager.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15789
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14457306', '13323337', '12751498', '13969881', '11928837']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3629435947997437
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5151050402006684
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3781597393398362
- Mean Citation Score: 338.8199180000001
- Max Citation Score: 358.4394200000001
- Similarity Product: 313.99961444203154

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