MEASURING RESPONSE TRENDS IN A DIGITAL TELEVISION NETWORK

摘要

Techniques and systems for providing a trend server outside a content provider network to communicate with the content provider network to build a trend record based on responses received from the content provider network for monitoring certain activity trend or tendency in the content provider network and provide an alert when the content provider network behaves abnormally.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method to monitor status of a content provider network, comprising:
sending, from a trending server, a first request message to the content provider network, wherein the first request message has an associated type value; receiving, at the trending server, a first response message from the content provider network; determining, by the trending server, whether or not the first response message is normal by comparing with a trend record for the type value associated with the first request message; selectively updating the trend record based on the first response message; and generating an alert when it is determined that the first response message is abnormal.