Method and system for internet performance monitoring and analysis

• US 20050262104A1
• Filed: 07/21/2005
• Published: 11/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Colorado WSC, LLC
• Original Assignee: Savvis Communications Corporation (Cyxtera Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Robertson, Niel, Burton, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 7,353,272 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/022 Multivendor or multi-standard integration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5083 wherein the managed service relates to web hosting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/55 Testing of service level quality, e.g. simulating service usage
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

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.

Claims

1. A method for Internet performance monitoring and analysis comprising, 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:

(A) 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;

(B) measuring access to web page objects in the web page; and

(C) transmitting measured information about the access to the web page back to the location that made the request,

wherein the measuring further comprises one or more of;

(a) capturing non-speed based information including errors during download, source of content by IP address, and type of content that an object represents, and

(b) parsing and recognizing other objects referenced in a content returned that also need to be retrieved; and

wherein the measuring utilizes an HTTP protocol to interact with a web server.