Patent ID: 6360261
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method for analyzing traffic data in a distributed computing environment that includes a plurality of interconnected systems operatively coupled to a server, said method comprising:generating a plurality of traffic data hits, each of said hits corresponding to data exchanged between one of the servers and one of the interconnected systems; storing access information from the traffic data hits in one or more results tables; defining a time slice; storing the results tables as analysis results for each reoccurrence of the time slice; defining a time frame of interest that is longer than the time slice; generating an analysis summary from a plurality of analysis results; providing a user session table comprising one or more records that each store a pointer and one or more microtables, each pointer corresponding to one of the results tables, each of the microtables including one or more indices and being associated with one of the results tables, each such index within the microtable logically referring to access information collected in an associated results table, each such pointer in the user session table further logically referring to one of the microtables, the method further comprising: counting a user session for each associated results table; and adjusting the user session count for consecutive time slices.