Patent · US Expired

Distributed crawling of hyperlinked documents

US7305610B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 14, 2000
Grant dateDec 4, 2007
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Expiry dateDec 22, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/951
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for crawling hyperlinked documents are provided. Hyperlinked documents to be crawled are grouped by host and the host to be crawled next is selected according to a stall time of the host. The stall time can indicate the earliest time that the host should be crawled and the stall times can be a predetermined amount of time, vary by host and be adjusted according to actual retrieval times from the host.

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