PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007602
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of a gaming system and method are disclosed as enabling replacements for one or more portions of an offered award. An offered award may comprise a plurality of different award values (e.g., portions of the offered award), where one or more of the plurality of award values can be selected for replacement in an attempt to improve the selected award values with larger award values. The gaming system may randomly generate replacement award values that are equal to zero, lower in value, equal in value, or greater in value than the award values selected for replacement. In other words, one or more portions of an offered award can be put at risk in attempt to improve the offered award.

Claim (Index 1):
A gaming system comprising:\n a processor; a display device; an input device; a dispenser; a random number generator; a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:\n randomly generate, using the random number generator, a first plurality of symbols, where the first plurality of symbols comprises a plurality of persistent symbols and a plurality of non-persistent symbols; \n display, using the display device, the first plurality of symbols in a plurality of symbol display areas, each of the first plurality of symbols being associated with a separate one of the plurality of symbol display areas; \n display, using the display device, a plurality of offered award values, where each of the plurality of offered award values is associated with one of the displayed plurality of persistent symbols; \n receive, via the input device, at least one selection of at least one symbol display area associated with one of the plurality of displayed persistent symbols; \n remove, from the display device, a displayed persistent symbol and an associated offered award value from the selected symbol display area; \n randomly generate, using the random number generator, a second plurality of symbols for the plurality of symbol display areas, wherein each of the second plurality of symbols is associated with a separate one of the plurality of symbol display areas, where the second plurality of symbols comprises a second plurality of persistent symbols and a second plurality of non-persistent symbols; \n display, using the display device, at least one new persistent symbol in the selected symbol display area and a subset of the second plurality of symbols, where the second plurality of symbols replaces the displayed first plurality of symbols in the associated symbol display areas without replacing any displayed persistent symbols from the first plurality of symbols in the associated symbol display areas; \n determine one or more awards based on values of any of the persistent symbols displayed on the display device; \n display, using the display device, the one or more awards based on the values of any displayed persistent symbols, the credit balance being increased by any determined awards; and \n issue, using the dispenser, a value based on the credit balance upon receipt of a cash out signal via the input device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21667
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14258635', '13903613', '14025037', '12175111', '15847021']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4505458679084265
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5154347079262033
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4570347519102042
- Mean Citation Score: 380.866948
- Max Citation Score: 382.7052
- Similarity Product: 325.4692798862457

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

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