Patent ID: 7047101

Claim:
A method for generating a new recipe for reading a measurement on a product using a measurement tool, the method comprising the steps of: a. providing a collection of sub-recipes as a starting point from which to generate the new recipe, wherein the sub-recipes have functions that are based on at least one of a set of parameter dependencies, the parameter dependencies including, 1. a device dependency including identification of the product upon which the measurement is desired and characteristics of the product, 2. a layer dependency including identification of a material on the product and characteristics of the material, 3. a tool dependency including identification of the measurement tool and characteristics of the measurement tool, and 4. a goal dependency including identification of an effort that the existing recipe is to accomplish, b. specifying desired parameter dependencies for the new recipe, c. selecting some of the sub-recipes for inclusion into the new recipe, where the sub-recipes selected for inclusion have parameter dependencies that are common with the desired parameter dependencies of the new recipe, d. generating the new recipe from the selected sub-recipes and any new sub-recipe that is need and that was not provided in the collection of sub-recipes.