PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["463", "029000"]

Abstract:
The present invention involves methods and devices for controlling many aspects of a player's gaming experience, including game themes presented, game denomination, pay models, content and promotions. Some implementations of the invention provide a casino operator the necessary tools to create subsets of customers, often referred to herein as “communities,” and to control the gaming experiences of players in these communities. In some such implementations, communities may be created and/or modified according to various criteria, some of which may be weighted more heavily than others. Specific marketing messages, promotions, etc., may be provided to attract and retain players having similar characteristics and preferences.

Claim (Index 7):
A gaming system comprising:\n a processor; a network interface; and a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the network interface to:\n identify a player of a gaming machine including a payment acceptor; \n responsive to receipt, via the payment acceptor, of a physical item associated with a monetary value, establish a credit balance based on the monetary value associated with the physical item for the player; \n determine which of a plurality of different gaming communities the identified player is assigned to, wherein each gaming community is associated with one of a plurality of different sets of one or more wagering games and one of a plurality of different sets of one or more wagering game characteristics; and \n enable the identified player to play, on the gaming machine, one of the wagering games of the set of one or more wagering games associated with the player's assigned gaming community in accordance with the set of one or more wagering game characteristics associated with the player's assigned gaming community.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5125
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13911766', '15197286', '13911748', '13906050', '11739661']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4430069484269254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5741880261346608
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4561250561976989
- Mean Citation Score: 488.30137
- Max Citation Score: 517.40607
- Similarity Product: 466.6693788364703

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

Dataset: test