Patent ID: 8284170

Claim:
A method, comprising: at a computing device with a touch screen display: detecting a single finger contact on the touch screen display; creating a single touch area that corresponds to the single finger contact on the touch screen display; determining if the single touch area concurrently overlaps with a plurality of objects displayed on the touch screen display; connecting the plurality of objects with the single touch area if each object in the plurality of objects is determined to concurrently overlap the single touch area, wherein connecting the plurality of objects with the single touch area maintains the overlap between the single touch area and each object in the plurality of objects when the single touch area is moved in accordance with detected movement of the single finger contact; after connecting the plurality of objects with the single touch area, detecting movement of the single finger contact on the touch screen display; determining movement of the single touch area that corresponds to movement of the single finger contact on the touch screen display; and moving the connected plurality of objects that concurrently overlap the single touch area in accordance with the determined movement of the single touch area.