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US 2014/0280009 A1Published application
Methods and apparatus to supplement web crawling with cached data from distributed devices
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorChad Hage
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to supplement web crawling with cached data from distributed devices are disclosed. An example method includes accessing a first set of websites cached in a panelist device; comparing the first set of websites to a second set of websites to be analyzed by a crawler; and retrieving with the crawler a first website included in the second set of websites but not included in the first set of websites from a server associated with the first website.
Claims1
A method comprising:
- accessing a first set of websites cached in a panelist device;
- comparing the first set of websites to a second set of websites to be analyzed by a crawler;
- and
- retrieving with the crawler a first website included in the second set of websites but not included in the first set of websites from a server associated with the first website.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.