Patent ID: 11960830
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for constructing a computerized user interface, the method comprising:
displaying a first electronic spreadsheet that has a plurality of cells arranged in rows and columns, each row corresponding to a different parameter that is identified in the first column of the row and each cell of each subsequent column displaying a value associated with the parameter identified in the corresponding row;
receiving a click on a first cell of the first electronic spreadsheet, wherein the first cell displays a parameter identifier of a first parameter, and the first parameter is a lot i.d.;
in response to the click on the first cell of the first electronic spreadsheet, generating and displaying at least one intermediate spreadsheet and receiving at least one click on the at least one intermediate spreadsheet;
in response to the at least one click on the at least one intermediate spreadsheet, generating a second electronic spreadsheet that represents data values of a first array of records that pertain to the first parameter, wherein data values of the second electronic spreadsheet are names of variables that pertain to the first parameter and that are ranked according to a metric selected from a list consisting of: out-of-sigma count and p-value; and
further in response to the at least one click on the at least one intermediate spreadsheet, displaying the second electronic spreadsheet;
in response to a user selection of a first filter in the second electronic spreadsheet, displaying a first data view that represents only data values of a second array of records that are a subset of the first array of records and match the first filter; and
in response to a user selection of a second parameter value in the first data view, displaying a second data view that represents data values of a third array of records, which match the second parameter value and also match the first filter.