Patent ID: 8458619

Claim:
A method for providing alert notification in a data processing system, said method comprising: in response to the receipt of a request to display an alert on a display device of said data processing system while a screensaver presentation is already being displayed on said display device of said data processing system, wherein said request is originated from a process via a window management module (WMM) that interpolates said request to ascertain a notification window style and an alert type, determining whether or not said process is authorized to display said alert over said screensaver presentation; in response to a determination that said process is authorized to display said alert over said screensaver presentation, displaying according to said notification window style and said alert type a notification window indicating said alert over said screensaver presentation in said display device, wherein said screensaver presentation continues to be displayed in at least a portion of said display device during display of said alert; and in response to a determination that said process is not authorized to display said alert over said screensaver presentation, displaying said screensaver presentation without displaying a notification window indicating said alert over said screensaver presentation.