Patent ID: 7580365

Claim:
A method for measuring the total roundtrip response time of a set of requests resulting from an original request on a public or private network, utilizing a single response time monitor located on a non-origin node, comprising: (a) starting the response time monitor on the non-origin node; (b) for the original request and each additional request from the set of requests resulting from the original request, 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; the termination condition comprising no additional requests being detected by the response time monitor for a predefined time period; and (d) calculating, by the response time monitor, the total roundtrip response time by aggregating the respective round trip times of the original request and all the additional requests by adding together the duration of all their respective components.