PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15910265
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A gaming system includes at least one input device adapted to receive a physical item associated with a monetary value that establishes a credit balance, an input indicative of a wager drawn on the credit balance for a wagering game, and a cashout input that initiates a payout from the credit balance. In response to a wager input, a wagering game is initiated that includes the spinning and stopping of a set of bonus reels through a plurality of bonus spins populating a bonus array with bonus symbols. The bonus reels comprise a combination of symbols reducing display processing requirements and improve mapping random numbers to displayed symbols for display during bonus spins having reduced durations. When completed, an award is determined based according to values associated with less than all of the bonus symbols displayed in a bonus outcome array.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of operating a gaming system, the gaming system including game-logic circuitry and a gaming machine, the gaming machine primarily dedicated to playing at least one casino wagering game, the gaming machine including an electronic display device and one or more electronic input devices, the method comprising:\n detecting, via at least one of the one or more electronic input devices, a physical item associated with a monetary value that establishes a credit balance; initiating the casino wagering game in response to an input indicative of a wager drawn on the credit balance; directing the electronic display device to display symbols representing at least a part of an outcome of the casino wagering game in an initial array; in response to the outcome including a first trigger event, initiating a bonus feature including a bonus array of symbol-bearing bonus reels that include bonus symbols having respective, associated values, the bonus feature including:\n spinning and stopping the bonus reels through a plurality of bonus spins; \n populating the bonus array with bonus symbols displayed during the plurality of bonus spins; and \n in response to a second trigger event, awarding a player according to the values associated with less than all of the bonus symbols displayed in the bonus array; and \n receiving, via at least one of the one or more electronic input devices, a cashout input that initiates a payout from the credit balance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79518
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14731728', '14807110', '14865088', '15138901', '15190536']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3942917420207638
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5869874038870478
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4135613082073922
- Mean Citation Score: 477.62310800000006
- Max Citation Score: 511.29166
- Similarity Product: 502.6004841433848

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