PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870223
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["463", "017000"]

Abstract:
A plurality of virtual instant tickets are loaded onto a memory of a microprocessor that is physically provided to the consumer. The consumer is physically given a small object, such as a bank card or hotel room key card that has the microprocessor embedded therein. The memory of the microprocessor includes a validation number of each virtual instant ticket, and the winning or losing outcome of each virtual instant ticket and the value of any winning outcome. A purchase is made to unlock a portion of the virtual instant tickets, thereby allowing that portion of tickets to be played. The consumer uses a computing device that interacts with the microprocessor to play the tickets and informs the consumer of the outcome. Additional virtual instant tickets may be unlocked with subsequent purchases. The memory of the microprocessor is updated to indicate the one or more virtual instant tickets that were successfully played.

Claim (Index 12):
A distributed gaming system that allows a consumer to play a plurality of virtual instant tickets, each virtual instant ticket having a predetermined winning or losing outcome and also having a predefined cost for ticket play, the distributed gaming system comprising:\n (a) a microprocessor including a memory that is physically provided to the consumer prior to ticket play so that the consumer is in physical possession of the microprocessor, the microprocessor being configured to:\n (i) load the plurality of virtual instant tickets to its memory by loading information for each virtual instant ticket including:\n (A) a validation number of the virtual instant ticket, and \n (B) the winning or losing outcome of the virtual instant ticket and the value of any winning outcome, and \n \n (ii) unlock a portion of the virtual instant tickets, thereby allowing the consumer to play the unlocked portion of virtual instant tickets, the unlocking occurring as a result of purchasing a predefined monetary amount of ticket play that corresponds to the cost for ticket play for that portion of virtual instant tickets, the portion being less than all of the virtual instant tickets that were previously loaded to the memory of the microprocessor, \n wherein the remaining portion of virtual instant tickets that were previously loaded to the memory of the microprocessor remain available to be played at a later point in time upon making a subsequent purchase to play an additional portion of the virtual instant tickets; and \n (b) a computing device in communication with the microprocessor and operated by the consumer, computing device being configured to:\n (i) play one or more of the virtual instant tickets that are in the memory of the microprocessor via interaction of the microprocessor and the computing device, and \n (ii) display the winning or losing outcome on a display of the computing device; \n and wherein the microprocessor is further configured to:\n (iii) update its memory to indicate the one or more virtual instant tickets that were successfully played.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20548
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15837617', '13223585', '12898821', '14326756', '13223628']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3364638277319655
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4910657304948271
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3519240180082517
- Mean Citation Score: 227.393008
- Max Citation Score: 245.85953
- Similarity Product: 198.28866081105355

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