Integrated service platform

• US 6,789,079 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2001
• Issued: 09/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chang, Da-Yi, Tu, Kung-Cheng, Li, Kun-Pei, Ting, Hsiu-Lan, Sun, Mao-Shing, Lin, Chun-Hung
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Shahid
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fleurantin, Jean Bolte
• Application Number:
  US09/971,842
• Publication Number:
  US 20030069885A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,068 Days
• Field of Search: 707/1-10, 707/100-104, 707/200-206, 709/223-227, 713/202, 700/96, 700/91
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

The present invention discloses an integrated service platform (ISP). Under the real-time mode, the ISP of the present invention comprises the devices of: an engineering data analysis database (EDB); an area controller database (AC Database); a web server; and client computers. Under the mode of accessing data in a certain period of time, the present invention comprises the devices of: an EDB; an AC Database; a loader; a web server; and client computers. The application of the ISP of the present invention allows users on the client sites to access the data they want with browsers. Thus, no disturbance of the maintenance on the client sites would occur, because the browsers are used for accessing the data.

Claims

1. An integrated service platform (ISP), suitable for use in a manufacturing execution system (MES) utilized in a wafer fab, the ISP comprising:

an engineering data analysis database(EDB), wherein data of the MES is stored in the EDB;

an area controller database (AC Database); and

a web server, wherein the web server is connected respectively to the EDB and the AC Database for accessing the data stored in the EDB and the AC Database, the web server comprising;

a first server, used for connecting a plurality of client computers to the web server, and serving the client computers located in a factory in which the EDB and the AC Database are located, the first server utilizing an internet protocol (IP) address to determine if the client computers have the right to access data stored in the first server; and

a second server, used for connecting the client computers to the web server, and the second server serves the client computers in a plurality of related business groups which are located outside the factory in which the EDB and the AC Database are located, the second server utilizing a username and a password to determine if the client computers have the right to access data stored in the second server.

2. The ISP of claim 1, wherein the web server is a clustered web server.

3. The ISP of claim 1, wherein the web server has an active server pages (ASP) interface.

4. The ISP of claim 1, wherein the web server utilizes a component object model (COM) concept to develop a plurality of objects of the ISP.

5. The ISP of claim 1, wherein the web server utilizes a real-time mode for accessing data stored in the EDB and the AC Database.

6. The ISP of claim 1, further comprising a search engine, wherein the search engine is used for finding required data by inputting a keyword at a browser on each of the client computers.

7. An ISP, suitable for use in a manufacturing execution system (MES) utilized in a wafer fab, the ISP comprising:

an EDB, wherein data of the MES is stored in the EDB;

an AC Database;

a loader, wherein the loader is connected to the EDB and the AC Database respectively; and

a web server, comprising;

a structured query language (SQL) database, connected to the loader, wherein the loader utilizes in advance a mode of periodically accessing data at an interval of predetermined time so as to first arrange data stored in the EDB and the AC Database and thereafter put the arranged data in the SQL database;

a first server, used for connecting a plurality of first client computers to the web server, and serving the first client computers in a factory in which the EDB and the AC Database are located, the first server utilizing an IP address to determine if the first client computers have the right to access data stored in the first server, and the data stored in the first server comes from the SQL database, the EDB and the AC Database; and

a second server, used for connecting a plurality of second client computers to the web server, and serving the second client computers in a plurality of related business groups which are located outside the factory in which the EDB and the AC Database are located, the second server utilizing a username and a password to determine if the second client computers have the right to access data stored in the second server, and the data stored in the first server comes from the SQL database, the EDB and the AC Database.

8. The ISP of claim 7, wherein the ISP is a clustered web server.

9. The ISP of claim 7, wherein the web server has an ASP interface.

10. The ISP of claim 7, wherein the web server utilizes a COM concept to develop objects of the ISP.

11. The ISP of claim 7, further comprising a search engine, wherein the search engine is used for finding required data by inputting a keyword at a browser on each of the client computers.