Patent ID: 8838781

Claim:
A method performed by one or more processors comprising an initiator computer and comprising: at the initiator computer: initiating a monitoring session for a communication path including creating and storing monitoring session state data; sending, to a first responder computer of the communication path, a first request to initiate, on the first responder computer, a first state servlet that is configured to continuously monitor, at the first responder computer, during the monitoring session, between the initiator computer and the first responder computer, one or more characteristics of one or more processes that the first responder computer may perform; sending, to the first responder computer, monitoring instructions to monitor the one or more characteristics of the one or more processes; while the monitoring session is active and the first responder computer is in the communication path, receiving and collecting monitored information from the first responder computer; in response to determining that the monitoring session has become inactive, automatically and autonomously ending the monitoring session and deleting the monitoring session state data without sending further instructions to the first responder computer.