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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
May. 01, 2017
Pathmatics, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Gabriel Gottlieb, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Thomas George Lorimor, Santa Monica, CA (US);
PATHMATICS, INC., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for automatically generating and maintaining user profile cookie sets. The user profile cookie sets may be used by a web crawler when gathering data such as advertisement data associated with one or more websites. The cookie sets may be generated by choosing a user profile with a set of user traits, selecting a set of websites related to the user traits, and browsing the selected set of websites using a web crawler while allowing the website to place cookies in storage of the web crawler. The cookie sets may be maintained by selecting a website to browse, selecting a user profile associated with the selected website, loading a previously generated cookie set for the selected user profile into the storage of a web crawler, and loading the webpage while allowing the website to place, update, or replace cookies in the storage of the web crawler.