US 7,353,272 B2 · Method and system for internet performance monitoring and analysis including user interface and periodic information measurement and collection

Abstract

A method for Internet performance monitoring and analysis includes, by at least one data collection agent (DCA), a DCA being a computer operating on the Internet and configured with software that is controlled remotely from another location on the Internet, responsive to a request from another location, said request including an indication of a web page, collecting web page object-level data with said at least one DCA; measuring access to web page objects in the web page; and transmitting measured information about the access to the web page back to the location that made the request. The measuring includes one or more of: capturing non-speed based information including errors during download, source of content by IP address, and type of content that an object represents, and parsing and recognizing other objects referenced in a content returned that also need to be retrieved. The measuring utilizes an HTTP protocol to interact with a web server.

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Dependent claims

A system for performance monitoring and analysis through a computer network, comprising:

at least one data collection agent (DCA) in communication with a computer network, the at least one data collection agent configured to measure and collect information indicative of the performance experienced accessing one or more web page objects;
and
a user interface for displaying the information;
wherein the user interface is configured to graphically illustrate the information.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/185,800Filed 21 Jul 2005 · continuation

Priority

23 Jun 1999

Published

US 2005/0262104 A124 Nov 2005

Granted

1 Apr 2008

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04L 41/022
Standardisation; Integration: multivendor or multi-standard integration
H04L 41/5009
Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS: determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g.…
H04L 41/5083
Based on type of value added network service under agreement: wherein the managed service relates to web hosting
H04L 43/045
Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation: for graphical visualisation of monitoring data

Family

Application60/140,542Us provisional application · filed 23 Jun 1999

Application09/603,174Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Jun 2000

US 2005/0262104 A1Pre-grant publication · published 24 Nov 2005

US 6,973,490 B1Parent of this continuation

US 7,353,272 B2This patent

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Method and system for internet performance monitoring and analysis including user interface and periodic information measurement and collection

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Method and system for internet performance monitoring and analysis including user interface and periodic information measurement and collection

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Abstract

Claims38