Patent ID: 7130767

Claim:
A computer-implemented data presentation method for presenting a set of expected failure states of system-related constructs pertaining to a plasma processing system: receiving a set of indicia pertaining to a first system-related construct of said system-related constructs; computing, in accordance with a first sub-method and responsive to said receiving said first set of indicia, a first expected failure state value; computing a first normalized expected failure state value in accordance with a first weight; correlating said first normalized expected failure state value to a first color; displaying said first color in a cell of an n-dimensional matrix, wherein n is an integer greater than 1; wherein said n-dimensional matrix includes a column dimension of x, a row dimension of y, and a plane dimension of z, wherein x is an integer greater than 0, y is an integer greater than 0, and z is an integer greater than 0 and wherein said n-dimensional matrix including a second color correlated to a second normalized expected failure state value, and a third color correlated to a third normalized expected failure state value, wherein said third normalized expected failure state value is derived from said first normalized expected failure state value and said second normalized expected failure state value.