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Video and digital multimedia aggregator remote content crawler

  • US 8,285,701 B2
  • Filed: 08/03/2001
  • Issued: 10/09/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • a remote content crawler processor that controls the apparatus;

    a network resource processor that acquires data related to resources coupled to one or more communications networks;

    a crawling criteria processor that acquires crawling criteria, said crawling criteria comprising a plurality of conditions, said plurality of conditions comprising content subject matter, content type, and a delivery method, said acquiring of crawling criteria comprising analyzing hypertext associated with desired hyperlinks and analyzing text proximate to the desired hyperlinks;

    a crawler content provider processor that receives, processes and stores content provider listings; and

    a network crawler comprising at least one server, wherein the network crawler crawls content providers to acquire data related to available content in accordance with the crawling criteria,wherein said remote content crawler processor determines that the acquired data related to the resources coupled to one or more communications networks meets said plurality of conditions of said crawling criteria.

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