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20100125564 | Mobile SiteMaps - A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler. | 05-20-2010 |
20110093533 | GENERATING SITE MAPS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating sitemaps. The method includes scanning network traffic between a server and one or more clients requesting resources from the server, the network traffic including resource request messages from the one or more clients and resources served by the server in response to the resource request messages. The method also includes automatically extracting data from the traffic served by the server to the one or more clients, the extracted data including one or more Uniform Resource Locators that identify the resources served by the server to the one or more clients. The method automatically generates a sitemap from the extracted data, and stores the sitemap in a computer-readable memory. | 04-21-2011 |
20120303451 | IDENTIFYING AND/OR BLOCKING ADS SUCH AS DOCUMENT-SPECIFIC COMPETITIVE ADS - A content owner partner (e.g., a Website/Web page publisher) can easily block entire broad or narrow categories of ads, and can specify objectionable ad content or targeting. Concepts may be associated with a property and ads related to those concepts may be blocked for the given property. Further, terms may be associated with a property and ads including any of the terms may be blocked for the given property. | 11-29-2012 |
20140337128 | CONTENT-TARGETED ADVERTISING USING COLLECTED USER BEHAVIOR DATA - A content-targeting ad system is provided with a user behavior (e.g., selection (e.g., click), conversion, etc.) feedback mechanism. The performance of individual ads, or groups of ads, may be tracked on a per document (e.g. per URL) and/or on a per host (e.g. per Website) basis. The performance of ad targeting functions may also be tracked on a per document, and/or per host basis. Such user behavior feedback data may be processed (e.g., aggregated) into useful data structures. Such user behavior feedback data (raw or processed) may then be used in a content-targeting ad system to improve ad quality, improve user experience, and/or maximize revenue. | 11-13-2014 |
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20100262592 | Web Crawler Scheduler that Utilizes Sitemaps from Websites - Methods and systems for a web crawler scheduler that utilizes sitemaps from websites are described. A web crawler scheduling system receives a notification from a website or web server. In response to the notification, the system accesses one or more sitemap(s) for documents associated with the website or web server. The system schedules crawls of the documents based on information identified from the sitemaps. The system crawls at least a subset of the documents scheduled for crawling. | 10-14-2010 |
20100318508 | Sitemap Generating Client for Web Crawler - Methods and systems for a sitemap generating client for web crawlers are described. The client accesses one or more sources of document information about the documents available on a website, such as the file system, access logs, or pre-made URL lists. Document information is extracted from the sources and one or more sitemaps are generated based on the extracted document information. A notification is transmitted to a remote computer, informing that the sitemap(s) are available for access and likely have been updated. If the remote computer is associated with a web crawler, the remote computer may access the sitemap(s) and use the sitemaps to schedule a crawl of documents included or available on the website. | 12-16-2010 |
20120036118 | Web Crawler Scheduler that Utilizes Sitemaps from Websites - Methods and systems for a web crawler scheduler that utilizes sitemaps from websites are described. A web crawler scheduling system receives a notification from a website or web server. In response to the notification, the system accesses one or more sitemap(s) for documents associated with the website or web server. The system schedules crawls of the documents based on information identified from the sitemaps. The system crawls at least a subset of the documents scheduled for crawling. | 02-09-2012 |
20130226898 | Web Crawler Scheduler that Utilizes Sitemaps from Websites - Systems and methods for scheduling documents for crawling are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining sitemap information for a plurality of websites; and analyzing the sitemap information to identify a website, in the plurality of websites. The website has sitemap information that is at least potentially out of date. The method also includes updating the sitemap information for the identified website by downloading updated sitemap information for the identified website; and scheduling documents for crawling in accordance with the updated sitemap information for the identified website. | 08-29-2013 |
20140046925 | MOBILE SITEMAPS - A method of analyzing documents or relationships between documents includes receiving a notification of an available metadata document containing information about one or more network-accessible documents, obtaining a document format indicator associated with the metadata document, selecting a document crawler using the document format indicator, and crawling at least some of the network-accessible documents using the selected document crawler. | 02-13-2014 |
20150242508 | Web Crawler Scheduler that Utilizes Sitemaps from Websites - Systems and methods for scheduling documents for crawling are disclosed in which sitemap information is updated for a first website identified by a sitemap by downloading updated sitemap information for the first website and scheduling documents for crawling in accordance with the updated sitemap information for the first website. The sitemap information includes one or more sitemap indexes, where each respective sitemap index in the one or more sitemap indices includes a list of URLs corresponding to documents stored at a corresponding website in a plurality of websites, the plurality of websites including the first website, and each sitemap index in the one or more sitemap indexes includes information identifying one or more of: a last modification date of a URL in the list of URLs, a change frequency of a document specified by the URL, a document title, an authority of the document, and a priority of the document. | 08-27-2015 |
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20100185513 | SERVING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON CONTENT - Advertisers are permitted to put targeted ads on page on the web (or some other document of any media type). The present invention may do so by (i) obtaining content that includes available spots for ads, (ii) determining ads relevant to content, and/or (iii) combining content with ads determined to be relevant to the content. | 07-22-2010 |
20110145731 | SERVING CONTENT-RELEVANT ADVERTISEMENTS WITH CLIENT-SIDE DEVICE SUPPORT - A client-side application (such as a browser, a browser plug-in, a browser toolbar plug-in, etc. on an end user's computer) is used to support the serving of content-relevant ads to the client device. The client-side application may provide such support by sending document information (such as a document identifier, document content, content relevance information, etc.) to a content ad server. The client-side application may also be used to combine content of the document and the content-relevant ads. For example, the client-side application may combine content of the document and the ads in a window (e.g., in a browser window), may provide the ads in a window above, below, adjacent to a document window, may provide the ads in “chrome” of the browser, etc. | 06-16-2011 |
20110191309 | SERVING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON CONTENT - Advertisers are permitted to put targeted ads on page on the web (or some other document of any media type). The present invention may do so by (i) obtaining content that includes available spots for ads, (ii) determining ads relevant to content, and/or (iii) combining content with ads determined to be relevant to the content. | 08-04-2011 |
20110270677 | DETERMINING CONTENT TO BE PROVIDED BY AN ENTITY FOR RENDERING VIA A RESOURCE IN A TARGET DOCUMENT OR NOTIFYING AN ALTERNATIVE ENTITY OF THE AVAILABILITY OF THE RESOURCE - A method and system for allowing a resource associated with a target document usable for ad rendering by a first entity to be used for rendering of content by a second entity. Depending on one or more conditions, the first entity either uses the resource to render at least one ad or allows a second entity to use at least a portion of the resource to render content. | 11-03-2011 |
20140040027 | SERVING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON CONTENT - Advertisers are permitted to put targeted ads on page on the web (or some other document of any media type). The present invention may do so by (i) obtaining content that includes available spots for ads, (ii) determining ads relevant to content, and/or (iii) combining content with ads determined to be relevant to the content. | 02-06-2014 |
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20150127392 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TICKETED EVENT NOTIFICATIONS - Computing systems and methods for automatically providing event-related notifications to users are provided. Purchased-ticket events can be identified by scraping user emails. Ticket information such as dates and locations of events can also be gathered. User friends such as contacts in the user's social networks that have purchased tickets for the identified events may be identified. For future events, the user can be notified of friends that are attending the event, event-related vendor offers, ticket resale alerts, and event-time alerts. For past events, the user can be notified of shared comments or photos from friends or others. Consumers in a common geographical area with the user that have purchased tickets for the same events can also be identified. The user can be notified of identified neighbors attending the event or a community chat webpagc for the event can be provided. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134371 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC SCRAPBOOK GENERATION - Computing systems and methods for facilitating automatic generation and maintenance of an online scrapbook are provided. The online scrapbook may be a repository of ticketed-event information and associated photos, comments or other mementos associated with the ticketed events. The scrapbook may include a timeline of future and past purchased-ticket events and associated links for inviting others to future events, reselling tickets to future events, sharing events with others through social networking, displaying photos of past events, or commenting on past or future events. Events for the webpage may be identified through a user account on a ticket server or by scraping a user's email account for event-related emails. The photos may be gathered from social networking sites associated with the user and sorted by event based on the time, location, or content of the photo. | 05-14-2015 |