Patent ID: 7133911

Claim:
A method of analyzing network performance when executing a task, comprising displaying a chart, the chart further comprising: a first and a second times during which one or more meaningful frames within the network are traveling in a first and a second directions, respectively, the first and second times each represented by a bar that shows at least one of: an insertion time representing a cumulative time for one or more meaningful frames to be inserted into the network, and a queuing, processing and propagation (QPP) time during which the one or more meaningful frames were within the network as a result of queuing, processing, and propagation; and a time set representing one or more times during which each of one or more nodes in the network is respectively active during the task, wherein each of the one or more nodes is represented by a bar that shows at least one of: a total amount of time that the node was processing, and a total amount of time that the node was sending but not processing.