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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1996
Srinivas Ramanathan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tai Jin, San Mateo, CA (US);
Manjari Asawa, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system of monitoring throughput of a data access system includes logging each transfer of data from a content server to a remote site, with each log entry including information indicative of transfer size, date, times, source and destination. The method includes accessing the log information in a passive and non-intrusive manner to evaluate the performance of transfers to a selected subset of the remote sites. In another embodiment, the performance evaluation is implemented for system resource allocation planning. In the preferred embodiment, the data access system is a broadband data system and the content servers utilize Internet applications. Also in the preferred embodiment, the data throughput is measured by the transfer rate of useful data, rather than all data including retransmissions.