Graphical user interface with process quality indicator

Patent 6993404 Issued on January 31, 2006. Estimated Expiration Date:

July 11, 2023. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 10617355 filed on 07/11/2003

US Classes:

700/109, Quality control700/83, Having operator control interface (e.g., control/display console)702/81, Quality evaluation715/772, Progress or activity indicator702/84, Quality control700/121, Integrated circuit production or semiconductor fabrication324/765, Test of semiconductor device702/182Performance or efficiency evaluation

Examiners

Primary: Picard, Leo P.
Assistant: Kosowski, Alexander

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G06F 19/00

Abstract

A graphical user interface for enabling a user to graphically observe on a displaying mechanism a statistical measure of the process quality of a manufacturing process provides for the display of an icon representing a workpiece. The location and color of the icon on the displaying mechanism indicates the process quality of the manufacturing process for the represented workpiece.