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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2014
Applicant:

The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, Schaumburg, IL;

Inventor:

Bradley R. Lawrence, III, Tampa, FL (US);

Assignee:

The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/927 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 12/823 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/80 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); H04L 47/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to throttle resource access by web crawlers. An example method disclosed herein includes obtaining, at a server, a media request message for media hosted by the server, the media request message requesting access to the media, characterizing a media-requesting source associated with the media request message, and inserting a time delay in a media response message to the media-requesting source based on the characterization.


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