Patent ID: 8073927

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