A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, etc. of determining response times for various computing segments is provided in accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. Accordingly, the following segments in the execution of a computer program may be directly measured, computed,...http://www.google.ca/patents/US6917971?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6917971 - Method and apparatus for determining a response time for a segment in a client/server computing environment