Patent ID: 8113951

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for encouraging conversions of a demo version of a game into a full version of the game, the method comprising: displaying an achievement advertisement to a user, wherein the achievement advertisement includes an indication of an opportunity for the user to possess an achievement; facilitating a download of a demo version of the game; detecting when the user has, by completing a game play objective within the demo version of the game, earned the achievement; notifying the user of accomplishment of the achievement; notifying the user that unless the game is upgraded to a more complete version of the game that the achievement will not be recorded to a profile of the user; determining whether the user has upgraded the demo version of the game to the more complete version of the game; and utilizing a computer processor that is a component of the computer to enforce a restriction that prohibits an award of the achievement to the user until it is determined that the user has upgraded the demo version of the game to the more complete version of the game.