Patent ID: 6438592
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A computerized method executed on a Web server having one or more computers connected to each other and to client computers by a computer network, said method comprising:receiving over said network URL requests from individual client computers requesting the transmission by said server to said client computers of individual data objects identified by URL; responding to the receipt of each of individual URL requests by transmitting information including one or more data objects corresponding to the URL contained in said request to the given client computer from which the request came, with the transmitted information transmitted in response to some such URL requests including performance monitoring instructions which instruct the given client computer to send to the server a performance message indicating the length of time required on the given client computer for the performance of an act associated with one or more of said transmitted data objects; and receiving said performance messages transmitted by individual client computers to said server in response to such performance monitoring instructions; wherein said performance monitoring instructions are transmitted in conjunction with a composite data object which include URLs to one or more component data objects and instruct a client computer to send a performance monitoring message indicating the length of time required for downloading to the client computer from a server of one or more of said component data objects.