Joon Young Kim

Title: Joon Young Kim and a Targeted Web-Crawling Patent.

Introduction

Joon Young Kim is an inventor associated with Snohomish, Washington, and Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC. Kim’s listed patent concerns prioritizing web pages for downloading during targeted web crawling.

Latest Patents

Kim is credited with 1 patent: “Calculating a downloading priority for the uniform resource locator in response to the domain density score, the anchor text score, the URL string score, the category need score, and the link proximity score for targeted web crawling.”

The invention describes a web crawler that assigns scores to URLs found on downloaded pages. It combines metrics—including domain density, anchor text, URL string, category need, and link proximity—to calculate a downloading priority. The crawler can then use those priorities to choose which pages to download next, increasing the likelihood of finding pages in a desired category.

Career Highlights

Kim’s listed patent is associated with Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC. The available information identifies the patent and its approach to prioritizing URLs but does not provide further details about Kim’s role or career history.

Collaborations

The supplied information names Yet L. Huynh and Michael D. Thogersen as coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the patent or describe particular collaborations.

Conclusion

Joon Young Kim’s listed invention applies URL scoring to guide web crawlers toward pages that are more likely to match a target category.