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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDenise Marie Genty, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
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Tracking the success or failure of and the quality of communications between requesting client station computers and servers, particularly servers for accessing resource locations for the present complex and circuitous environment. Conventional browsers are provided for requesting the transmission of data components from one of said resource locations to one of said client stations. There are also implementations, associated with the client station requesting the transmission of data components, for tracking characteristics of said transmission in combination with sending said tracked characteristics to at least one network server on the path of said transmission. In the complex World Wide Web (Web) environment, while the resource location server does not know where its thousand of “hits” are coming from, each requesting client station of those thousands does know the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or address of the server. Thus, the properties and characteristics of the transmission from the resource location are tracked at the requesting client station. Then, after a request and resulting transmission, or in the case of a failed transmission, after the first successful transmission after the failed transmission, the requesting client location sends tracked data to the server relative to the failed transmission, as well as any data pertinent to the successful transmission.
In a World Wide Web communication network with user access via a plurality of client computer controlled display stations connected through network server computers to World Wide Web documents transmitted from resource locations on said World Wide Web network remote from said client display stations, a system for tracking the transmission of said Web documents comprising:
In a World Wide Web communication network with user access via a plurality of client computer controlled display stations connected through network server computers to World Wide Web documents transmitted from resource locations on said World Wide Web network remote from said client display stations, a method for tracking the transmission of said Web documents comprising:
A computer program having code recorded on a computer readable medium for tracking the transmission of Web documents in a World Wide Web communication network with user access via a plurality of client computer controlled display stations connected through network server computers to World wide Web documents transmitted from resource locations on said World Wide Web network remote from said client display stations comprising:
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