Patent ID: 7603430

Claim:
A method of associating requests and events, comprising: at a web server computer, receiving Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests from user computers connected to said web server computer over a first network; in response to said HTTP requests, initiating, by said web server computer, events at server computers connected to said web server computer over a second network, wherein said events comprise backend business processes and dynamic content generation performed at said server computers; logging HTTP requests data at said web server computer; logging events data at said server computers; receiving said HTTP requests data from said web server computer and said events data from said server computers at a management system residing in said second network, wherein said HTTP requests data comprises a user identification for each of said HTTP requests and a time stamp for each of said HTTP requests and wherein said events data comprises a user identification for each of said events and a time stamp for each of said events; and at said management system, time ordering said HTTP requests and said events using said time stamp for each of said HTTP requests and said time stamp for each of said events; and for each user identified in said HTTP requests and said events, generating an association associating each of said events performed in said second network for said each user with a previous HTTP request of said HTTP requests received from said each user over said first network that is the closest in time to said each of said events according to said time ordering.