A method of displaying capacity information relating to computer resources over a preselected period of time. The computer resource is connected to a communications network and the method includes collecting data relating to capacity of the resource by periodically sampling preselected resource elements...http://www.google.com/patents/US6516348?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6516348 - Collecting and predicting capacity information for composite network resource formed by combining ports of an access server and/or links of wide arear network