Patents by Inventor Michael D. Thogersen

Michael D. Thogersen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Calculating a downloading priority for the uniform resource locator in response to the domain density score, the anchor text score, the URL string score, the category need score, and the link proximity score for targeted web crawling
    Patent number: 7672943
    Abstract: A web crawler system as described herein utilizes a targeted approach to increase the likelihood of downloading web pages of a desired type or category. The system employs a plurality of URL scoring metrics that generate individual scores for outlinked URLs contained in a downloaded web page. For each outlinked URL, the individual scores are combined using an appropriate algorithm or formula to generate an overall score that represents a downloading priority for the outlinked URL. The web crawler application can then download subsequent web pages in an order that is influenced by the downloading priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sandy Wong, Yet L. Huynh, Ramakrishnan Natarajan, Joon Young Kim, Michael D. Thogersen, Tong Yao
  • Uniform resource locator scoring for targeted web crawling
    Publication number: 20080104113
    Abstract: A web crawler system as described herein utilizes a targeted approach to increase the likelihood of downloading web pages of a desired type or category. The system employs a plurality of URL scoring metrics that generate individual scores for outlinked URLs contained in a downloaded web page. For each outlinked URL, the individual scores are combined using an appropriate algorithm or formula to generate an overall score that represents a downloading priority for the outlinked URL. The web crawler application can then download subsequent web pages in an order that is influenced by the downloading priorities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sandy Wong, Yet L. Huynh, Ramakrishnan Natarajan, Joon Young Kim, Michael D. Thogersen, Tong Yao