PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978999
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["463", "020000"]

Abstract:
A gaming machine includes a credit input mechanism, a display device, symbol meters, a player interface, and a game controller. The player interface generates input signals representative of a trade offer. The trade offer specifies a first set of bonus symbols accumulated by the first symbol meters to be traded for a second set of bonus symbols accumulated by another gaming machine. The game controller randomly generates a game outcome displayed by the display device, and accumulates respective bonus symbols of the game outcome among the first symbol meters. In response to an acceptance of the trade offer, the game controller removes the first set of bonus symbols from the first symbol meters and adds the second set of bonus symbols to the first symbol meters. The game controller further triggers an event in response to the first symbol meters accumulating a winning set of bonus symbols.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for playing a game of a gaming machine from a plurality of linked gaming machines, the method comprising:\n increasing a credit balance of a credit meter of the gaming machine based on a monetary value of a physical item received by a credit input mechanism of the gaming machine; decreasing the credit balance based on a wager on a game outcome of the gaming machine; randomly generating the game outcome with a game controller of the gaming machine; displaying the game outcome on a display device of the gaming machine; awarding one or more bonus symbols based on the game outcome; accumulating, among one or more symbol meters of the gaming machine, the one or more bonus symbols awarded based on the game outcome; after said accumulating, creating, based on input signals received via a player interface of the gaming machine, a request to substitute a first set of bonus symbols accumulated by the one or more symbol meters for a second set of bonus symbols accumulated by another gaming machine from the plurality of linked gaming machines; sending the request to the another gaming machine; in response to receiving an acceptance of the request from the another gaming machine:\n removing the first set of bonus symbols accumulated by the gaming machine from the one or more symbol meters of the gaming machine; and \n adding the second set of bonus symbols accumulated by the another gaming machine to the one or more symbol meters of the gaming machine; and \n triggering an event in response to the one or more symbol meters accumulating a winning set of bonus symbols; and increasing the credit balance based on an award associated with the game outcome.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69492
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14822831', '15802428', '15487838', '15883349', '14078080']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3886394966514308
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5136164586388431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4011371928501721
- Mean Citation Score: 363.297006
- Max Citation Score: 371.24362
- Similarity Product: 319.45348940649035

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

Dataset: test