PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926794
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
An EGM is provided including a display and a game controller coupled to the display. The display selectively displays a primary and secondary game in primary and secondary matrices. The primary matrix includes a trigger column and a plurality of combinable columns corresponding to a first plurality of virtual reels. The secondary matrix includes the trigger column and a combined column corresponding to a second plurality of virtual reels. Symbols appearing in the combined column are oversized. The primary matrix is displayed and the first plurality of virtual reels are spun and stopped to conduct the primary game, where a trigger symbol appears in the trigger column. The secondary game is selected and the secondary matrix is displayed in response to the appearance of the trigger symbol. The second plurality of virtual reels are spun and stopped to conduct the secondary game in which a secondary game award is awarded.

Claim (Index 1):
An electronic gaming machine comprising:\n a display device configured to selectively display:\n a primary game using a primary matrix including a trigger column and a plurality of combinable columns, the trigger column and the plurality of combinable columns corresponding to a first plurality of virtual reels having respective pluralities of symbols defined thereon, and \n a secondary game using a secondary matrix including the trigger column and a combined column representing a combination of the plurality of combinable columns in the primary matrix, the trigger column and the combined column corresponding to a second plurality of reel strips having respective pluralities of symbols defined thereon, wherein the respective symbols appearing in the combined column are oversized to span a space otherwise occupied by the plurality of combinable columns in the primary matrix; and \n a game controller coupled to said display device and configured to:\n control said display device to display the primary matrix, \n spin and stop the first plurality of virtual reels to conduct the primary game, wherein at least one trigger symbol appears in the trigger column when the first plurality of virtual reels stops, \n select the secondary game and control said display device to display the secondary matrix in response to the appearance of the trigger symbol in the trigger column, \n spin and stop the second plurality of virtual reels to conduct the secondary game, wherein at least one oversized symbol appears in the combined column, and \n award a secondary game award for the secondary game based at least upon the at least one oversized symbol.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15180710', '13526207', '15233456', '15179782', '12454960']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3448862506358029
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.523069243393242
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3627045499115468
- Mean Citation Score: 351.535656
- Max Citation Score: 376.17044
- Similarity Product: 310.2300032293081

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

Dataset: test