Data processing: measuring – calibrating – or testing – Measurement system – Performance or efficiency evaluation
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-29
2006-08-29
Hoff, Marc S. (Department: 2857)
Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
Measurement system
Performance or efficiency evaluation
C702S183000, C702S185000, C702S186000, C703S021000, C709S224000, C714S047300
Reexamination Certificate
active
07099797
ABSTRACT:
A method of testing a computer system in a testing environment formed of a network of routers, servers, and firewalls. Performance of the computer system is monitored. A log is made of the monitored performance of the computer system. The computer system is subjected to hostile conditions until it no longer functions. The state of the computer system at failure point is recorded. The performance monitoring is done with substantially no interference with the testing environment. The performance monitoring includes monitoring, over a sampling period, of packet flow, hardware resource utilization, memory utilization, data access time, or thread count. A business method entails providing a testing environment formed of a network of network devices including routers, servers, and firewalls, while selling test time to a customer on one or more of the network devices during purchased tests that test the security of the customer's computer system. The purchased tests are conducted simultaneously with other tests for other customers within the testing environment. Customer security performance data based on the purchased tests is provided without loss of privacy by taking security measures to ensure that none of the other customers can access the security performance data. The tests may also be directed to scalability or reliability of the customer's computer system. Data about a device under test is gathered using a managed information kernel that is loaded into the devices operating memory before its operating system. The gathered data is prepared as managed information items.
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Avanza Technologies, Inc.
Hoff Marc S.
Roberts Mardula & Wertheim LLC
Suglo Janet L
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