PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942803
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A video slot machine has M reels, each displaying N symbols when stopped. Above the display of the reels is a set of generally valuable replacement symbols that have been independently selected at random independent from the reel display. Each reel is associated with a particular replacement symbol in the set. If a special symbol is displayed on a reel, the replacement symbol associated with that reel substitutes for the special symbol when determining the award. Examples of the replacement symbols include wild symbols, bonus symbols, and multiplier symbols. After each game, the replacement symbols are shifted, and used replacement symbols are randomly replaced to vary the possibilities for each game. The player is incentivized to play longer due to the possibility of using valuable replacement symbols in the symbol array and the possibility of very high awards being granted by multiple special symbols being displayed.

Claim (Index 21):
A method performed by a video gaming device including at least a processing system and a display system coupled to the processing system, the method comprising:\n displaying a plurality of game symbols at a plurality of game symbol display positions to form an outcome, wherein the plurality of game symbols are randomly determined, wherein the game symbol display positions comprise a plurality of subsets of game symbol display positions, and wherein the plurality of game symbols comprise a special symbol displayed in a first one of the game symbol display positions; displaying on the display system a set of replacement symbols concurrently with and separate from the plurality of game symbols, the set of replacement symbols being randomly determined and comprising a plurality of different replacement symbols arranged in an ordered set of replacement symbol display positions, wherein the ordered set of replacement symbol display positions includes an entry position and an exit position, and wherein each of the plurality of subsets of game symbol display positions is associated with a corresponding replacement symbol display position; substituting, under control of the processing system, the special symbol displayed on the outcome with a first replacement symbol from the set of replacement symbols that corresponds to the subset of game symbol positions containing the first one of the game symbol display positions in which the special symbol was displayed to provide a modified outcome; shifting remaining ones of the replacement symbols in the ordered set of replacement symbol display positions, other than the first replacement symbol, towards the exit position and inserting a new replacement symbol at the entry position; and granting an award to a player for any winning combination of symbols in the modified outcome including any replacement symbols that substituted for the special symbols.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96296
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14302217', '14802942', '13758734', '14225304', '13758655']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3612126293197602
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5568780601157688
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3807791723993611
- Mean Citation Score: 404.711532
- Max Citation Score: 472.2197
- Similarity Product: 385.5519364562989

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

Dataset: test