Patent ID: 8325367

Claim:
A system for automatically assigning items to printable media, comprising: a computer device, a computer readable medium in communication with the computing device, the computer readable medium comprising one or more programming instructions for: electronically obtaining a first template comprising a plurality of first content items, wherein each of the first content item comprises a first content area, for each of the first content items, identifying one or more first content area properties and one or more first content item properties, electronically obtaining a second template comprising a plurality of second content areas, for each of the second content areas, identifying one or more second content area properties and one or more second content item properties, automatically identifying one or more content rules based on the second content area properties, the second content item properties, the first content area properties and the first content item properties, selecting any of the first content items, determining whether the selected first content item corresponds to any of the second content area based on the corresponding content rules, and automatically assigning the selected first content item to a corresponding one of the second content area in response to determining that the selected first content item correspond to the corresponding second content area, and printing a representation of the selected first content item in the corresponding second content area based on the second template; wherein: the automatically identifying content rules comprises: identifying a value for a first content item importance property for the selected first content item, identifying a value for a second content item importance property for an additional one of the first content items, and determining that the value for the second content item importance property is less than the value for the first content item importance property; and assigning the selected first content item, rather than the additional first content items, to the corresponding one of the second content area is also in response to the value for the second content item importance property being less than the value for the first content item importance property.