PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007701
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates broadly to a gaming device operable under control of a processor together with a method of operating a gaming device. The disclosure relates particularly, although not exclusively, to a gaming device and method where a wild symbol is in the course of a plurality of games extends along at least one of a plurality of symbol reels.

Claim (Index 9):
A gaming system comprising:\n a processor; and a memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:\n cause a display device to display a plurality of symbol display positions, for a first play of a game:\n cause the display device to display a first plurality of symbols at a first set of the symbol display positions, \n determine any award associated with the displayed first plurality of symbols, and \n cause the display device to display any determined award, \n \n responsive to a triggering event occurring and one of the displayed plurality of symbols for the first play of the game being a wild symbol displayed at a first one of the symbol display positions, for a second, subsequent play of the game:\n cause the display device to display that wild symbol at a second one of the symbol display positions, \n cause the display device to display a replication of that wild symbol to a third one of the symbol display positions, the third one of the symbol display positions being different from the first one of the symbol display positions, \n cause the display device to display a second plurality of symbols at a second set of the symbol display positions, \n determine any award associated with the displayed second plurality of symbols and the displayed wild symbols, and \n cause the display device to display any determined award, and \n \n responsive to no triggering event occurring and one of the displayed plurality of symbols for the first play of the game being the wild symbol displayed at the first one of the symbol display positions, for the second, subsequent play of the game:\n cause the display device to display that wild symbol at the second one of the symbol display positions, \n cause the display device to display a third plurality of symbols at a third set of the symbol display positions, \n determine any award associated with the displayed third plurality of symbols and the displayed wild symbols, and \n cause the display device to display any determined award.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.625
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13793943', '15492756', '15227683', '14811291', '14451032']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4361191098403553
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5130624312943916
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4438134419857589
- Mean Citation Score: 364.38118
- Max Citation Score: 373.78333
- Similarity Product: 347.74301814866067

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

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