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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2013
Ebay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Gurudatta Horantur Shivaswamy, Saratoga, CA (US);
Gaurav Kukal, San Jose, CA (US);
Jaino Joseph, San Jose, CA (US);
Greeshma Katipally, Santa Clara, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for optimizing the performance of a webpage crawler are described. According to various embodiments, historical web crawler performance data is accessed, the data describing a performance of a web crawler during various time periods in one or more prior days. A capacity of the web crawler to fulfill uniform resource locator (URL) crawl requests for an upcoming given time period is then estimated, based on the historical web crawler performance data. Thereafter, a plurality of URL crawl requests are distributed to the web crawler during the upcoming given time period, based on the estimated capacity of the web crawler.