Patent Document ID: 8473574
Application ID: 12783620

Base Claim:
1. A method for discovering and indexing online video content, the method comprising: classifying each of a plurality of webpages as either a video page or a non-video page; aggregating ones of the plurality of webpages classified as a video page; determining a respective domain importance ranking for each of a plurality of domains of the ones of the plurality of webpages classified as a video page; selecting ones of the plurality of domains based on the respective domain importance rankings; randomly sampling webpages of the selected ones of the plurality of domains; automatically, for each of the selected ones of the plurality of domains, forming page groups, based, at least in part, on layouts and visual patterns of the randomly sampled webpages; generating hint information for each of the selected ones of the plurality of domains based, at least in part, on attributes of corresponding page groups for guiding a deep crawling operation of the selected ones of the plurality of domains; using the hint information to guide the deep crawling operation of the selected ones of the plurality of domains to discover video pages in each of the selected ones of the plurality of domains; and indexing the discovered video pages, wherein the method is implemented on an electronic computing device.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the classifying each of a plurality of webpages further comprises: determining whether a respective webpage of the plurality of webpages includes video player information, determining whether the video player information included in the respective webpage is to be used for playing an advertisement, and classifying the respective webpage as a video page when the respective webpage is determined to include the video player information and the video player information is not to be used for playing an advertisement.