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Patent No.:
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.