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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1998
Matt Burdick, San Jose, CA (US);
Gigi Chu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Promiscuous probes are inserted at various locations in a network to determine response times at the various locations. Each probe identifies each signal detected as a request signal or a response signal. Furthermore, each probe determines and maintains a time stamp value of each detected signal. By comparing the time stamp values of a response signal with its corresponding request signal, the response time for the request/response transaction can be determined. A system manager monitors the response times at the various locations in the network in order to determine where a slowdown in data transfer is occurring. Accordingly, the system manager can isolate problems within the network which cause a decrease in data transfer efficiency.