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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2018
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Bradley R. Lawrence, III, Tampa, FL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
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.