Patent ID: 8683365

Claim:
A system for controlling a semiconductor manufacturing equipment, comprising: a processor and a memory; a plurality of menu dialogues stored in the memory, the menu dialogues configured to control, monitor and manage the semiconductor manufacturing equipment; a navigation menu configured to display the menu dialogues accessed by a user; a navigation controller configured to enable the navigation menu and register and manage the navigation menu; a display driver configured to display the navigation menu on a screen; and a data buffer configured to store data corrected in the menu dialogue accessed by the user, wherein the navigation menu displayed includes one or more menu bars; the navigation menu is disposed in a top side region of the screen and sequentially provides the menu bars corresponding respectively to the menu dialogues accessed by the user; if a conversion is made from a currently-accessed menu dialogue to another menu dialogue without storage of the corrected data, the navigation controller stores the corrected data in the data buffer; if a conversion is made from the currently-accessed menu dialogue to another menu dialogue without storage of the corrected data, the navigation controller automatically stores the corrected data in the data buffer before the menu conversion; and the navigation controller displays a first set of the menu bars corresponding to the menu dialogue without the corrected data and a second set of the menu bars corresponding to the menu dialogue with the corrected data, which are included in the navigation menu, the first and second sets of the menu bars being differently from each other.