Patent ID: 8612572
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: G06N,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for tracking, at a client device, aggregated measurement data regarding interaction between the client device and a distributed system, the method comprising: identifying, on the client device, the occurrence of an event involving interaction between the distributed system and the client device in which the distributed system provides a service to the client device; accessing, on the client device, one or more aggregation rules for generating aggregated measurement data for the event, wherein the one or more aggregation rules are provided to the client device from at least one server device and specify which event parameters to collect for the event on the client device and how the client device is to aggregate the event parameters to generate the aggregated measurement data; collecting, on the client device, the event parameters from the event at the client device as specified by the one or more aggregation rules, wherein the event parameters comprise data regarding the interaction between the distributed system and the client device in which the distributed system provides the service to the client device; generating, on the client device, aggregated measurement data by aggregating at least a portion of the event parameters in accordance with the one or more aggregation rules; and communicating the aggregated measurement data from the client device for server-side storage.