ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,051, issued on March 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Crawl algorithm" was invented by Linhai Qiu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robert Istvan Busa-Fekete (Chatham, N.J.), Julian Ulf Zimmert (Berlin), Andras Gyorgy (London), Hao Shen (Mountain View, Calif.), Hyomin Choi (Mountain View, Calif.), Sharmila Vijay (Mountain View, Calif.) and Li Xiao (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a crawl algorithm includes obtaining a plurality of web pages for a web crawler to crawl. The method also includes determining an available bandwidth for the web crawler. The method includes, for each respective web page...