PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16194011
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["463", "021000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a gaming machine, methods of gaming systems. In particular, a gaming machine which provides a spinning reel game of chance is provided. Certain symbols are controlled to expand to cover other symbols of virtual spinning reels, in order to provide the player with a dynamic visual game appearance.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of operating a gaming machine comprising a display device; a credit input mechanism configured to receive a physical item associated with a monetary value and establish a credit balance based on said received physical item; a player interface that enables a player to place a wager on a play of a game and to initiate the play of the game; a game controller executing instructions from a memory; and, a payout mechanism, the method comprising:\n displaying, by the game controller, a plurality of display positions on the display device, the plurality of display positions arranged to form a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; selecting, by the game controller, a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols to display in the plurality of display positions, the set of symbols including at least one expandable symbol and a plurality of non-expanding symbols; determining, by the game controller, that the selected plurality of symbols include at least one expandable symbol occupying one entire column of the plurality of columns, determining, by the game controller, that a first symbol combination of the at least one expandable symbol occupying one entire column and a plurality of the non-expanding symbols displayed in the plurality of display positions forms a first outcome; determining, by the game controller, if expanding the expandable symbol into at least one other display position of the plurality of display positions adjacent to the one entire column results in a second outcome in response to the first outcome; causing, by the game controller, the expandable symbol to expand in size so as to replace a symbol displayed at the at least one other display position of the plurality of display positions adjacent to the one entire column in response to the second outcome being a winning outcome formed by a second symbol combination of the expanded symbol and one or more of the plurality of non-expanding symbols; adjusting, by the game controller, the credit balance based at least in part on an amount associated with the first outcome and an amount associated with the second outcome; and dispensing, via the payout mechanism, a payout of the credit balance from the gaming machine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43902
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14869421', '12239490', '14866051', '14821999', '14694705']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3364807544147719
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5532187776014629
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.358154556733441
- Mean Citation Score: 358.65756600000014
- Max Citation Score: 448.5023
- Similarity Product: 396.6754348034501

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