PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109048
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["463", "026000"]

Abstract:
Gaming systems, methods, and machines provided herein may be used to provide bonus games that are associated with two different classes of awards, e.g., one or more first awards and one or more second awards. The first award(s) may generally be much more desirable to players than the second award(s), e.g., the first awards may be large-denomination jackpot awards, whereas the second awards may be small-denomination credit awards, e.g., non-jackpot awards. During play of such bonus games, selection of a stop position associated with a second award may cause that stop position to be instead associated with one of the one or more first awards for future play of the bonus game, thereby increasing the opportunities to win a first award in subsequent play of the bonus game.

Claim (Index 1):
An electronic gaming system comprising:\n one or more displays; and a game controller that includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices, wherein:\n the one or more processors, the one or more memory devices, and the one or more displays are operably connected, and \n the one or more memory devices store computer-executable instructions for controlling the one or more processors to:\n (a) cause a first bonus game associated with one or more first awards and one or more second awards to be displayed on the one or more displays, the first bonus game including a depiction of a first construct having a plurality of first stop positions that are each associated with an award selected from the group consisting of: the first awards and the second awards, wherein the first construct includes graphical indicators of each first stop position and of the award associated with each first stop position; \n (b) receive an indication of one or more trigger events; \n (c) select one or more of the first stop positions responsive, at least in part, to receipt of each indication of one of the one or more trigger events; and \n (d) cause at least one of the one or more first stop positions that are selected in response to receipt of the indication of one of the one or more trigger events and are, at the time of such selection, associated with one of the one or more second awards to be associated with one of the one or more first awards instead.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24242
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13107837', '14101726', '13784151', '14939074', '09857042']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3920502546492758
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5139684863077982
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.404242077815128
- Mean Citation Score: 353.49164
- Max Citation Score: 369.24353
- Similarity Product: 259.470582737344

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