Monitoring domain allocation performance

• US 9,160,641 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2013
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• 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): Tran, Philip B
• Application Number:
  US13/902,546
• Publication Number:
  US 20130262671A1
• Time in Patent Office: 872 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 709/226, 709/203
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/06 Generation of reports
• 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 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level

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 two or more embedded resources. The processing device uses the processed performance metric information to determine an allocation of one or more domains to be associated with the two or more embedded resources. In some embodiments, in making such a determination, the processing device assesses performance metric information collected and associated with subsequent requests for the two or more embedded resources using each of a variety of alternative allocations of domains associated with the two or more embedded resources. The processing device may also consider a number of factors, including domain selection criteria obtained from an original content provider. Aspects of systems and methods for generating recommendations to use a particular allocation of domains to process a subsequent request corresponding to the two or more embedded resources are also provided.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

under control of one or more configured computer systems,

obtaining, from a client computing device, performance data associated with processing a first resource request, wherein the first resource request corresponds to two or more embedded resources; and

dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with processing a subsequent request corresponding to the two or more embedded resources, wherein the two or more embedded resources are allocated to the one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with processing the subsequent request differently than the two or more embedded resources were allocated in conjunction with processing the first resource request.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request is based on the obtained performance data.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request comprises processing the obtained performance data and dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request if the processed performance data fails to meet a predetermined level of performance.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains is a function of bandwidth.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains is a function of a threshold number of simultaneous connections to a single domain.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains is a function of two or more of the group comprising:

a number of embedded resources corresponding to the request, a size associated with individual embedded resources corresponding to the request, a bandwidth, a threshold number of simultaneous connections to a single domain, a total number of simultaneous connections regardless of domain, or an order of requesting the two or more embedded resources.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

for individual sets of domains in the one or more sets of domains;

associating, for individual embedded resources of the two or more embedded resources, a domain from the set of domains from which the associated embedded resource will be requested.

8. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein associating, for individual embedded resources of the two or more embedded resources, a domain from the set of domains from which the associated embedded resource will be requested comprises translating a resource identifier corresponding to individual embedded resources of the two or more embedded resources such that requests for the two or more embedded resources are directed to the associated domain.

9. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

for individual sets of domains in the one or more sets of domains;

obtaining performance data from a client computing device, wherein the performance data is associated with processing the subsequent request using the set of domains.

10. The method as recited in claim 9 further comprising providing a recommendation for processing a further subsequent resource request based on a comparison of the performance data associated with processing the first resource request with the performance data associated with processing the subsequent request using individual sets of the identified one or more sets of domains, wherein the further subsequent resource request corresponds to the two or more embedded resources.

11. The method as recited in claim 9 further comprising dynamically determining a recommended allocation of domains to be associated with the two or more embedded resources based on the performance data associated with processing the subsequent request using individual sets of the identified one or more sets of domains.

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

at least one processing device including a processing component operative to;

obtain, from a client computing device, performance data associated with processing a first resource request, wherein the first resource request corresponds to two or more embedded resources; and

dynamically identify one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with processing a subsequent request corresponding to the two or more embedded resources, wherein the two or more embedded resources are allocated to the one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with processing the subsequent request differently than the two or more embedded resources were allocated in conjunction with processing the first resource request.

13. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request is based on the obtained performance data.

14. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request comprises processing the obtained performance data and dynamically identifying one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with the subsequent request if the processed performance data fails to meet a predetermined level of performance.

15. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the processing component is further operative to:

for individual sets of domains in the one or more sets of domains;

associate, for individual embedded resources of the two or more embedded resources, a domain from the set of domains from which the associated embedded resource will be requested.

16. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the processing component is further operative to:

for individual sets of domains in the one or more sets of domains;

cause an initiation of the subsequent request corresponding to the two or more embedded resources, wherein the subsequent request is associated with the set of domains.

17. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the processing component is further operative to:

for individual sets of domains in the one or more sets of domains;

obtain performance data from a client computing device, wherein the performance data is associated with processing the subsequent request using the set of domains.

18. The system as recited in claim 17, wherein the processing component is further operative to provide a recommendation for processing a further subsequent resource request based on a comparison of the performance data associated with processing the first resource request with the performance data associated with processing the subsequent request using individual sets of the identified one or more sets of domains, wherein the further subsequent resource request corresponds to the two or more embedded resources.

19. The system as recited in claim 17, wherein the processing component is further operative to dynamically determine a recommended allocation of domains to be associated with the two or more embedded resources based on the performance data associated with processing the subsequent request using individual sets of the identified one or more sets of domains.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for implementation by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

obtain, from a client computing device, performance data associated with processing a first resource request, wherein the first resource request corresponds to two or more embedded resources; and

dynamically identify one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with processing a subsequent request corresponding to the two or more embedded resources, wherein the two or more embedded resources are allocated to the one or more sets of domains to be utilized in conjunction with processing the subsequent request differently than the two or more embedded resources were allocated in conjunction with processing the first resource request.