System and Method for Sharing Web Perfomance Data

Abstract

A monitoring system is provided that allows owners of monitoring accounts to share web monitoring data collected under the direction of the monitoring account. Account owners are able to interact with the monitoring system to identify recipient accounts for shared web monitoring data and apply permissions at a granular level so that portions of monitored data can be shared with varying permission levels. Grouping can also be employed by an account owner to facilitate efficient sharing of monitoring data to many recipient accounts. The monitoring system also provides analysis utilities that can be used by a recipient account to aggregate shared with owned data and generate related reports as desired.

1 . A technical system for sharing web monitoring data collected by a web monitoring service provider on behalf of a plurality of web monitoring accounts, the system comprising:
 a plurality of monitoring servers configured to monitor a target via a data communication network to generate and store web monitoring data;   a controlling server communicatively coupled via a data communication network with the plurality of monitoring servers, the controlling server having access to said stored web monitoring data, wherein the controlling server hosts a plurality of monitoring accounts;   a sharing module executable on the controlling server, the sharing module configured to maintain sharing data related to the plurality of monitoring accounts, wherein the controlling server is further configured to receive a request for shared web monitoring data and grant or deny said request in accordance with said sharing data.