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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2004
William A. Spencer, Westford, MA (US);
Russell L. Holden, Boxborough, MA (US);
Michael J. Gagnon, Merrimack, NH (US);
William A. Spencer, Westford, MA (US);
Russell L. Holden, Boxborough, MA (US);
Michael J. Gagnon, Merrimack, NH (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a network in which local copies of a shared document are maintained by multiple servers, performance data is gathered and stored during document synchronization via replication. The performance data includes a delay indicator which is associated with the document such that each copy of the document includes a record of which servers and hops were traversed and what delay was experienced at each of those servers and hops. The delays may be calculated by associating a time stamp with the document upon receipt at a server, and subsequently comparing time of receipt at a logically adjacent server with the time stamp. The performance data can be used to locate problems.