PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["463", "016000"]

Abstract:
A system and method of providing a player loyalty program to award a player of an electronic gaming machine, including conducting games with enhanced payouts based on a cash in or initial investment amount. In response to a player's initial investment or cash in amount, a payout schedule is selected. The larger the initial investment the better the selected payout schedule for the player. Live games facilitated by electronic gaming machines or devices and server-based games may utilize the method disclosed herein. Players may also receive enhanced awards such as enhanced player points based on the amount of the initial investment. Awards and bonuses may also be provided to players who exhaust an initial investment exceeding a threshold amount.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of conducting a player loyalty program to award a player of a game on an electronic gaming machine, the electronic gaming machine being operatively associated with a display, a memory unit and a processor, the method comprising the steps of:\n said processor accepting an initial investment from a player to participate in said game on said electronic gaming machine, the electronic gaming machine being configured to use a first payout schedule and a second payout schedule to determine payouts from instances of play of a game of chance, the first payout schedule having a greater overall payout percentage than the second payout schedule, wherein any payout is distributed to a player account stored in memory on the electronic gaming machine; said processor crediting said player's account on said electronic gaming machine an amount equivalent to said initial investment, wherein said player's account is stored in the memory unit; said processor counting a number of times the first payout schedule is used to determine a payout to said player's account stored in memory on said electronic gaming machine from instances of play of the game; and responsive to the counted number of times said first payout schedule is used to determine a payout to said player's account being equal to or greater than a first threshold value, said processor assigning an award for display on the display operatively associated with the electronic gaming machine; and responsive to the counted number of times said first payout schedule is used to determine a payout to said player's account being less than said first threshold value, said processor using one of the first and second payout schedules to determine a payout amount to be credited to said player's account from an instance of play of the game.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82857
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15680172', '12050768', '14201417', '14096140', '14465706']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3962670492208809
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5966568316509475
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4163060274638875
- Mean Citation Score: 494.670816
- Max Citation Score: 542.7919
- Similarity Product: 511.2494222191215

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