Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Naor Rosenberg

Benny Zilberstein

Eli Cohen

Mor Schlesinger

Shiran Schwartz

A method for performing crowd-sourced native application crawling is disclosed. The method includes determining a list of installed native applications installed on a user device and determining whether a set of crawling conditions are met. The method includes generating a work request in response to the set of crawling conditions being met by the user device and transmitting the work request to a content acquisition server. The work request includes the list of installed native applications. The method includes receiving a crawling task including an application access mechanism corresponding to a state of a native application. The method include launching the native application and setting the state of the native application based on the application access mechanism. The native application issues a content request to a content server. The method further includes receiving the content from the content server and transmitting the content to the content acquisition server.

Crowd-sourced native application crawling

In some embodiments, an entry management module may receive a set of entries, each entry of the set of entries including a time-stamp value and a path identifier to a data object having content that may be changed. An entry selection module may select a first entry from the set of entries based on a first time-stamp value of the first entry, the first time-stamp value identifying a first time being no later than other times identified by time-stamp values of other entries. A crawler module may retrieve first content from a first data object using a first path identifier of the first entry. A freshness module may calculate a first updated timestamp value using a first freshness value, the first freshness value indicating a priority to retrieve possibly changed content from the first data object, the first updated time-stamp value replacing the first time-stamp value.

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Elyakhin, Israel

Naor Rosenberg