ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,187, issued on April 15, was assigned to BRIGHT DATA LTD. (Netanya, Israel).

"System and method for URL fetching retry mechanism" was invented by Derry Shribman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ofer Vilenski (Moshav Hadar Am, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for overcoming intermittent, temporary, or other fetching failures by using multiple attempts for retrieving a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed. The URL fetching may use direct or non-direct fetching schemes, or a combination thereof. The non-direct fetching method may use intermediate devices, such as proxy server, Data-Center proxy server, tunnel dev...