PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983697
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of a gaming system and method are disclosed as having a repeating free spin win accumulator associated with unlocked symbol display areas. In one embodiment, the gaming system may include a plurality of symbol display areas. Upon a triggering event, one or more of the symbol display areas are set to an unlocked state for a play of a game. For each symbol display area that is unlocked, the gaming system randomly generates and displays at least one symbol from an associated set of symbols in a predetermined format. The gaming system accumulates awards based on the randomly generated and displayed symbols in the unlocked symbol display areas. The gaming system may lock any symbol display area where the gaming system generated and displayed a lock symbol. In one embodiment, the gaming system repeats the process for the play of a game until all symbol display areas are locked.

Claim (Index 1):
A gaming system comprising:\n a cabinet; a processor; a display device supported by the cabinet; an input device supported by the cabinet; a value acceptor supported by the cabinet; a value dispenser supported by the cabinet; a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:\n establish a credit balance based at least in part on a monetary value received by the value acceptor; \n place a wager following receipt of a wager input via an input device, the credit balance being decreased by the wager; \n display, on the display device, a plurality of randomly generated symbols from a first set of symbols; \n determine if at least one trigger symbol was generated from the first set of symbols; \n display, on the display device, in response to the at least one trigger symbol, a plurality of unlocked symbol display areas, each unlocked symbol display area being associated with one of a plurality of second sets of symbols, where each of the plurality of second sets of symbols comprises at least one lock symbol; \n for each unlocked symbol display area, randomly generate a first symbol from the associated one of the plurality of second sets of symbols; \n display, on the display device, for each unlocked symbol display area, the randomly generated symbols from the associated one of the plurality of second sets of symbols; \n display, on the display device, to display any determined awards, the credit balance being increased by any determined awards; \n lock any unlocked symbol display area where the at least one lock symbol was generated and displayed; \n for each remaining unlocked symbol display area, randomly generate a second symbol from the associated one of the plurality of second sets of symbols; \n display, on the display device, any determined awards, the credit balance being increased by any determined awards; and \n issue value from the value dispenser based on the credit balance upon receipt of a cash out signal via the input device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18919
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14258635', '14021638', '15858670', '15858083', '14046625']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3492885612234831
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5219411865070674
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3665538237518415
- Mean Citation Score: 359.70341799999994
- Max Citation Score: 373.66006
- Similarity Product: 367.06397691388366

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