Identifying equivalent links on a page
US10621255B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 9, 2017 |
| Grant date | Apr 14, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 1, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/9535
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A computer-implemented process for identifying equivalent links on a page responsive to a determination that the crawler has not visited all required universal resource locators, locates a next URL to be crawled to form a current URL and processes the current URL to identify equivalent URLs. Responsive to a determination that the crawler has not visited the current URL, determine whether necessary to crawl all identified equivalent URLs and responsive to a determination that it is necessary to crawl all identified equivalent URLs, adding all equivalent URLs to a list of URLs to be crawled.
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