Patent ID: 9565082
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method performed by one or more processors of a first computing device configured as a responder node and providing improved efficiency in monitoring networked communication paths and comprising: at the responder node: initiating a first state servlet that is configured to continuously monitor one or more first characteristics of one or more first processes during a first monitoring session of a first communications path between a second computing device configured as a monitoring session initiator and the responder node; while the first monitoring session is active and the responder node is in the first communications path, the first state servlet monitoring the one or more first characteristics of the one or more first processes and sending first monitored information to the monitoring session initiator; in response to determining that the first monitoring session has become inactive or that the responder node is not in the first communications path, autonomously ending the first monitoring session and deleting first monitoring session state data.