Patent ID: 7519007

Claim:
A method utilizing a single response time monitor, located on a non-origin node of a public or private network, for measuring a total roundtrip response time of a set of requests resulting from a response, having embedded HTML frames, to an original request, comprising: (a) utilizing the response time monitor on the non-origin node for building a relationship tree for the original request and the embedded HTML frames; (b) for the original request and each additional request from the set of requests resulting from the original request, including requests for the embedded HTML frames, using the response time monitor to detect a start time and end time of each component of the request's roundtrip response time in order to calculate each said component's duration; (c) detecting that the original request and the set of requests resulting from the original request have been completed upon the occurrence of a termination condition; and (d) calculating, by the response time monitor, the total roundtrip response time, including time needed for obtaining the embedded HTML frames, by using the relationship tree to aggregate respective round trip times of the original request and all the additional requests by adding together the duration of all their respective components.