Patent ID: 7046254

Claim:
A method for displaying resource aids in a display area, said method comprising the steps of: monitoring a separate status of each of a plurality of computer resources comprising at least one processing resource, at least one storage resource, at least one memory resource, at least one software resource, and at least one graphical resource; displaying a user interface comprising at least one displayable object within a display area with a plurality of separate cursor position sensitive regions each graphically distinguished within a total display region of said displayable object solely for triggering a transparent resource aid upon detection of a cursor, wherein each of said plurality of cursor position sensitive regions is associated with a separate selection of monitored resources from among said plurality of monitored computer resources; comparing said separate status of each of said plurality of computer resources with at least one user specified threshold for each of said plurality of computer resources; and responsive to detecting at least one from among said separate status for at least one of said separate selection of monitored resources associated with a particular cursor position sensitive region exceeding said threshold and said cursor positioned over said particular cursor position sensitive region from among said plurality of cursor position sensitive regions of said displayable object, placing a transparent resource aid within said display area in association with said displayable object, wherein said transparent resource aid presents said separate status of said separate selection of monitored resources associated with said particular cursor position sensitive region, such that said at least one displayable object is not obscured by said transparent resource aid.