Patent Document ID: 7542820
Application ID: 11536582

Base Claim:
1. A method for facilitating creation of at least a recipe for processing at least a substrate in at least a processing system, the method comprising: providing a recipe editor, said recipe editor incorporating best-known methods (BKMs), said BKMs being practice specifications for said recipe; creating a plurality of BKM modules based on said BKMs for said recipe, wherein each BKM module of said plurality of BKM modules relates to a process stage for processing said substrate and includes a plurality of recipe steps of said recipe; defining rules for parameters in said plurality of BKM modules; translating, using said recipe editor, user-propagated parameter values into updated rules; said user-propagated parameter values being propagated by a first user in at least one of said processing system and said plurality of BKM modules; generating at least an updated BKM module using said updated rules; and providing said updated BKM module to at least a second processing system that is used by a second user.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said updated BKM module includes one or more updated permissible value ranges for one or more of said parameters.