Patent ID: 8000827

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory program storage medium having computer readable code embodied therein, said computer readable code being configured for managing substrate processing data in a substrate processing environment, said substrate processing data being acquired while a substrate is processed in a plasma-processing chamber of a cluster tool, comprising: computer readable code for receiving meta-data associated with said substrate, said meta-data identifying a process recipe employed to process said substrate; computer readable code for receiving from a plurality of transducers a plurality of process data streams, each of said plurality of process data streams pertaining to a process parameter being monitored; computer readable code for storing individual data items associated with said plurality of process data streams and said meta-data in a first file; computer readable code for writing said first file to a process control computer as a written file; computer readable code for pushing said written file as a pushed file via a first path to an application; and computer readable code for notifying said application via a second path that said pushed file is available.