System and method of a peer-to-peer web service monitoring network

• US 20080189406A1
• Filed: 02/05/2007
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dreamcast Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Dreamcast Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Shen, Jian
• Application Number:
  US11/702,805
• Publication Number:
  US 20080189406A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0681 Configuration of triggering conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5012 determining service availability, e.g. which services are available at a certain point in time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5083 wherein the managed service relates to web hosting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A system and method of a peer-to-peer web service monitoring network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a central module of a peer-to-peer monitor networking includes embedding any number of monitoring agents of the peer-to-peer monitor network to any number of websites individually participating in the peer-to-peer monitor network, accessing a target website of the peer-to-peer monitor network through executing a set of command data using the monitoring agents and generating diagnostic data of the target website based on the accessing the target website. In addition, the method may include automatically assigning another monitoring agent of the peer-to-peer monitor network to monitor the target website when any one of the monitoring agents fails to perform the accessing the target website. The method may also include pinging the target website to test an availability of the target website based on the set of command data.

Claims

1. A method of a central module of a peer-to-peer monitor network, comprising:

embedding a plurality of monitoring agents of the peer-to-peer monitor network to a plurality of websites individually participating in the peer-to-peer monitor network;

accessing a target website of the peer-to-peer monitor network through executing a set of command data using at least one of the plurality of monitoring agents; and

generating at least one diagnostic data of the target website based on the accessing the target website.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the plurality of monitoring agents is selected using an algorithm which considers at least a capability of an internet service provider (ISP) of each of the plurality of websites, a capability of each web server hosting the each of the plurality of websites, and a capability of a web server hosting the target website.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising automatically assigning another monitoring agent of the peer-to-peer monitor network to monitor the target website when any one of the at least one of the plurality of monitoring agents fails to perform the accessing the target website.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising pinging the target website to test an availability of the target website based on the set of command data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the accessing the target website is performed to gauge at least one of a performance and a reliability of the target website based on the set of command data.

6. The method of claim 4 further comprising rendering a customized analysis of the target website based on parameter data of the target website, wherein the parameter data to include a frequency of the generating the at least one diagnostic data and a geographical coverage of the accessing the target website.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the geographical coverage to include at least one of a local, regional, nationwide, continental and global coverage of the target website based on the parameter data of the target website.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising communicating the at least one diagnostic data to the target website and to at least one mobile device associated with the target website.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising generating an alert signal to deliver to the at least one mobile device associated with the target website using at least one of an email, a text message, and an audible alarm when the at least one diagnostic data exceeds a threshold value.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising periodically publishing rankings of a pre-selected set of major websites to a graphical user interface (GUI) of the central module based on a combination of an availability, a performance, and a reliability of the pre-selected set of the major websites, wherein the pre-selected set of the major websites are determined based on a number of factors including at least a popularity of the major websites.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring agent is a thin open source code with less than 100 kilo-bytes in size.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising enabling the plurality of monitoring websites to render a valued added service to clients of the plurality of monitoring websites through modifying the thin open source code to customize functions performed by the plurality of monitoring websites.

13. The method of claim 1 in a form of a machine-readable medium embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the method of claim 1.

14. A method of a monitoring agent of a peer-to-peer monitor network, comprising:

parsing a set of command data having a list of time-stamped tasks associated with a target website of the peer-to-peer monitor network;

executing the set of command data to collect at least one diagnostic data of the target website; and

temporarily allocating the at least one diagnostic data to a memory space of a web server hosting the monitoring agent.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising communicating a web address of the web server hosting the monitoring agent to a central module of the peer-to-peer monitor network when the monitoring agent is embedded to the web server.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising communicating the at least one diagnostic data to the central module during the executing the set of command data based on the list of time-stamped tasks.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the set of command data to include a web address of the target website.

18. A system, comprising:

a central module to render an analysis of a target website through applying at least one diagnostic data assessing the target website; and

a plurality of monitoring agents embedded to web servers hosting the plurality of monitoring agents to execute a set of command data of the central module to collect the at least one diagnostic data.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising a processor module of the central module to configure the set of command data based on parameter data of the target website and a capability of each of the at least one of the plurality of monitoring agents.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising a master database of the central module to optimally assign at least one of the plurality of monitoring agents to the target website based on the parameter data and the capability of the each of the at least one of the plurality of monitoring agents, wherein the parameter data to include at least geographic locations of the each of the at least one of the plurality of monitoring agents and a degree of coverage requested by the target website.