Back to results
US 10,257,113 B2Granted
Method and apparatus to throttle media access by web crawlers
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorBradley R. Lawrence, III
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Loading patent…
Loading patent…
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorBradley R. Lawrence, III
Estimating the term…
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to throttle resource access by web crawlers. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a data interface to obtain a media request message for media hosted by a server, the media request message requesting access to the media. The example apparatus also includes a category handler to determine a source indicator of a media-requesting source associated with the media request message, the source indicator indicating whether the media-requesting source is associated with a media provider to provide audience measurement information associated with the media provided by the media provider. The example apparatus also includes a penalty manager to insert a time delay including a delay tag in the media response message to the media-requesting source based on the source indicator, the delay tag to cause a delay time period based on the source indicator, at least one of the data interface, category handler, and penalty manager is implemented on a logic circuit.
An apparatus comprising:
An apparatus to throttle media access at a server, the method comprising:
A non-transitory tangible computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a server hosting media to at least:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.