Patent ID: 7523190

Claim:
A method for real-time measurement of the performance of communications on a large area network between a selected server and a plurality of users at client machines, based upon actual user experience, including: accessing a server log having user-interaction records indicative of user interactions that occur with one or more applications running on the selected server and that are carried on communications associated with routings through nodes of the network; determining from the records, assessments of the performance of the communications experienced by the plurality of users; determining correlations between the assessments of the performance and the routings of the communications; validating the correlations based on an analysis of two or more parameters associated with the user interactions, wherein the parameters include at least two parameters selected from the group consisting of byte-density, URL count, and unique IP address count, wherein the byte-density is a function of client to server bytes and server to client bytes, and the URL count represents a total number of log entries; and based on the correlations, modifying one or more of the routings to improve the performance.