PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964622
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A gaming system includes a cascading symbol or tumbling reel game which utilizes one or more different classes or sets of symbols. Each class or set of symbols includes one or more related symbols. If a symbol class triggering event occurs in association with a class or set of symbols, the gaming system removes each of the related symbols in that class of symbols which are displayed at symbol display positions of one or more symbol display position matrices.

Claim (Index 1):
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 (a) at each of a plurality of symbol display positions, cause a display device to display one of a first plurality of symbols, wherein the plurality of symbol display positions form at least three columns and at least three rows including a first row, a second row positioned adjacent to the first row and a third row positioned adjacent to the second row, \n (b) determine if any of the displayed symbols form any winning symbol combinations, \n (c) responsive to a plurality of the displayed symbols forming a winning symbol combination, cause the display device to display one of a plurality of awards for each displayed winning symbol combination, \n (d) determine whether any of the displayed symbols qualify to be removed, wherein if one instance of one of the displayed symbols qualifies to be removed, each of the instances of that displayed symbol qualifies to be removed, and \n (e) for each of any displayed symbols that qualify to be removed:\n (i) cause the display device to display a removal of said symbol, \n (ii) for each of any symbols removed from the first row of the symbol display positions, cause the display device to display a repositioning of at least one of the displayed symbols to at least another one of the symbol display positions to create at least one empty symbol display position, \n (iii) for each of any symbols removed from the second row of the symbol display positions, cause the display device to display a repositioning of at least one of the displayed symbols to at least another one of the symbol display positions to create at least one empty symbol display position, and \n (iv) for any created empty symbol display positions, cause the display device to display one of a second plurality of symbols, wherein the second plurality of symbols excludes any instances of the removed symbol.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88636
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14028911', '15051329', '14028715', '14028936', '14028725']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4229600676484528
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5347223937648996
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4341363002600975
- Mean Citation Score: 392.658178
- Max Citation Score: 423.83615
- Similarity Product: 377.3324974701941

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

Dataset: test