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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Ron Frank Forman, Byron, MN (US);
John M. Pechacek, Rochester, MN (US);
Walter H. Schwane, Kasson, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A transaction time measurement mechanism has a transaction time manager running on a server computer system, a transaction time agent running on a client computer system that is coupled to the server computer system via a network, and a simple protocol for allowing them to directly and efficiently communicate. The transaction time agent is configured according to configuration data stored in a configuration table in a transaction time database, and stores transaction time data in a statistics table according to this configuration. The data in the statistics table is indexed to allow retrieving only the transaction time data of interest. The simple communication protocol supports multiple transaction time managers in a network computing environment that may all communicate with a single client.