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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2004
Jerome D. Boss, Bellevue, WA (US);
Cezary Marcjan, Redmond, WA (US);
Fei Su, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Geographically distributed data-gathering client computers are connected to the Internet in the same manner as typical users (for example, via local dial-up connections). The data-gathering client computers poll a central server (the 'UserMon' server) for a target site to access. After receiving the address of a target site from the UserMon server, the data-gathering client computers access the target site and obtain performance-parameter values indicative of the quality of their respective Internet connections to the target site and/or the performance of the target site itself. Each data-gathering client computer then pushes the performance-parameter values back to the 'UserMon' server for analysis.