Abstract: A method for generating a graphical user interface for electronic component sourcing includes displaying a price axis, displaying a time axis perpendicular to the price axis, and plotting a plurality of data points with respect to the price axis and the time axis, each of the data points corresponding to an offer to sell the electronic component and defining an ordered pair having a first value, plotted along the price axis, representative of a unit price and a second value, plotted along the time axis, representative of a lead time. The method may further include displaying a purchase order panel, adjacent to the price and time axes, by which a user may initiate a purchase of the electronic component according to a selected offer and populating the purchase order panel with the unit price according to the selected offer in response to a user interaction with a corresponding data point.

Abstract: A method for generating a graphical user interface for electronic component sourcing includes displaying a price axis, displaying a time axis perpendicular to the price axis, and plotting a plurality of data points with respect to the price axis and the time axis, each of the data points corresponding to an offer to sell the electronic component and defining an ordered pair having a first value, plotted along the price axis, representative of a unit price and a second value, plotted along the time axis, representative of a lead time. The method may further include displaying a purchase order panel, adjacent to the price and time axes, by which a user may initiate a purchase of the electronic component according to a selected offer and populating the purchase order panel with the unit price according to the selected offer in response to a user interaction with a corresponding data point.

Abstract: A method for generating a graphical user interface for electronic component sourcing includes displaying a price axis, displaying a time axis perpendicular to the price axis, and plotting a plurality of data points with respect to the price axis and the time axis, each of the data points corresponding to an offer to sell the electronic component and defining an ordered pair having a first value, plotted along the price axis, representative of a unit price and a second value, plotted along the time axis, representative of a lead time. The method may further include displaying a purchase order panel, adjacent to the price and time axes, by which a user may initiate a purchase of the electronic component according to a selected offer and populating the purchase order panel with the unit price according to the selected offer in response to a user interaction with a corresponding data point.

Abstract: A method for generating a graphical user interface for electronic component sourcing includes displaying a price axis, displaying a time axis perpendicular to the price axis, and plotting a plurality of data points with respect to the price axis and the time axis, each of the data points corresponding to an offer to sell the electronic component and defining an ordered pair having a first value, plotted along the price axis, representative of a unit price and a second value, plotted along the time axis, representative of a lead time. The method may further include displaying a purchase order panel, adjacent to the price and time axes, by which a user may initiate a purchase of the electronic component according to a selected offer and populating the purchase order panel with the unit price according to the selected offer in response to a user interaction with a corresponding data point.

Abstract: A Personal Area Network Security Domain (PSD) (50) is formed between PDA (52), mobile terminal (54), PC (56) and printer (58). The PSD (50) allows the sharing of resources between the devices within the PSD. If the devices within the PSD (50) are located remotely from one another, communication between those devices will be performed via mobile or cellular telephone network (66) and the Internet (68). For each set or association of similarly located devices within the PSD (50), one of those devices will be a gateway device. The gateway device is a device that is configured to communicate with an external communications medium (mobile network (66) or the Internet (68)). Data transmissions to other devices within the PSD are channelled through the relevant gateway. In another embodiment resources are shared between the two separate PSDs (of which may or may not be remotely located with respect to one another) by means of data exchanges between the respective gateway devices of the two PSDs.

Abstract: A Personal Area Network Security Domain (PSD) (50) is formed between PDA (52), mobile terminal (54), PC (56) and printer (58). The PSD (50) allows the sharing of resources between the devices within the PSD. If the devices within the PSD (50) are located remotely from one another, communication between those devices will be performed via mobile or cellular telephone network (66) and the Internet (68). For each set or association of similarly located devices within the PSD (50), one of those devices will be a gateway device. The gateway device is a device that is configured to communicate with an external communications medium (mobile network (66) or the Internet (68)). Data transmissions to other devices within the PSD are channelled through the relevant gateway. In another embodiment resources are shared between the two separate PSDs (of which may or may not be remotely located with respect to one another) by means of data exchanges between the respective gateway devices of the two PSDs.