Managing network data display

• US 8,316,124 B1
• Filed: 09/29/2008
• Issued: 11/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Baumback, Mark S., Bettis, David William, Jenkins, Jonathan A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moore, Ian N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Alexander, Jenee
• Application Number:
  US12/240,926
• Time in Patent Office: 1,513 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/805 QOS or priority aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Systems and methods for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests and determining optimizations for improving such performance are provided. A processing device obtains and processes performance metric information associated with processing a request corresponding to a set of resources. The processing device uses the processed performance metric information to identify a subset of the resources corresponding to a display location associated with a visible portion of a display and to further assess performance related to the processing of the identified subset of the resources. In some embodiments, the processed performance data may be used to identify timing information associated with the subset of the embedded resources. Aspects of systems and methods for identifying and testing alternative resource configurations corresponding to the content associated with the original set of resources and for determining whether to recommend a resource configuration for improving performance of subsequent client requests for the content are also provided.

Claims

1. A system for monitoring performance associated with processing a resource request, the system comprising:

at least one client computing device comprising a client computing component, wherein the client computing component is operable to determine a first set of performance data associated with processing a resource request, wherein the resource request corresponds to a set of resources, and wherein the set of resources correspond to Web page content requested by the at least one client computing device;

the at least one client computing device further comprising a performance measurement component, wherein the performance measurement component is operable to determine a second set of performance data associated with processing the resource request; and

at least one processing device comprising a processing component, the processing component operable to;

obtain, from the client computing component, the first set of performance data associated with processing the resource request;

obtain, from the performance measurement component, the second set of performance data associated with processing the resource request;

based on the first and second sets of performance data;

identify a set of coordinates for each of the resources, wherein the set of coordinates define a resource display location associated with each of the resources;

identify a display location associated with a visible portion of a display; and

identify a subset of the resources corresponding to the display location associated with the visible portion of the display by determining, for each resource, whether the set of coordinates corresponding to the resource are located within the display location, wherein other resources from the set of resources correspond to a display location associated with a non-visible portion of the display;

process the first and second sets of performance data to identify timing information associated with the subset of the resources; and

dynamically determine a recommended resource configuration based on the processed performance data.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the visible portion of the display corresponds to a portion of the display associated with all resources to be collectively displayed at a given time on the display.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the timing information includes timing of receipt, at the at least one client computing device, of the first byte of data and timing of receipt of the last byte of data for each resource in the subset of the resources.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the timing information includes timing information corresponding to rendering each individual resource in the subset of the resources for display.

5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the timing information includes timing information corresponding to collectively rendering the subset of the resources for display.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the timing information includes timing information corresponding to each of receipt of the first byte of data for each resource in the subset of the resources, receipt of the last byte of data for each resource in the subset of the resources, rendering each resource in the subset of the resources for display, and collectively rendering the subset of the resources for display.

7. A method comprising:

obtaining, from a client computing device, first and second performance data associated with processing a first resource request from the client computing device, wherein the first resource request corresponds to a set of resources and wherein the set of resources corresponds to an original resource and any embedded resources associated with content requested by the client computing device;

identifying a set of coordinates for each of the resources in the set of resources, wherein the set of coordinates define a resource display location associated with each of the resources;

identifying a display location associated with a visible portion of a display;

identifying a subset of the resources from the set of resources corresponding to a display location associated with a visible portion of the display by determining, for each resource, whether the set of coordinates corresponding to the resource are located within the display location, wherein other resources from the set of resources correspond to a display location associated with a non-visible portion of the display;

processing the first and second performance data to determine performance information corresponding to the identified subset of resources; and

dynamically determining a recommended resource configuration based on the processed performance data,

wherein the method is implemented by at least one processing device.

8. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein the visible portion of the display corresponds to a portion of the display associated with all resources to be collectively displayed at a given time on the display.

9. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein processing the first and second performance data to determine performance information corresponding to the identified subset of the resources comprises processing the first and second performance data to identify timing information corresponding to the subset of resources.

10. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the timing information includes timing of receipt, at the client computing device, of the first byte of data and timing of receipt of the last byte of data for each resource in the subset of resources.

11. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the timing information includes timing information corresponding to rendering each resource in the subset of resources for display.

12. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the timing information includes timing information corresponding to collectively rendering the subset of resources for display.

13. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the timing information includes timing information corresponding to each of receipt of the first byte of data for each resource in the subset of resources, receipt of the last byte of data for each resource in the subset of resources, rendering each resource in the subset of resources for display, and collectively rendering the subset of resources for display.

14. The method as recited in claim 9 further comprising causing the timing information to be displayed.

15. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein the visible portion of the display corresponds to a first frame area of the display defined by the entire available display area on the display for rendering the set of resources.

16. The method as recited in claim 15, wherein the subset of the resources includes all resources located in the first frame area of the display.

17. The method as recited in claim 15, wherein the subset of the resources is associated with a portion of the first frame area of the display.