Patent ID: 7454714

Claim:
A method for visually displaying a grouping of menu items within a graphical user interface, the method comprising: rendering a toolbar user interface, the toolbar user interface comprising one or more menu items, each menu item comprising one or more visual identifiers, at least one menu item comprising one or more submenu items comprising the one or more visual identifiers of the corresponding menu item to distinguish the submenu item from submenu items corresponding to other of the menu items; rendering a submenu item using the one or more visual identifiers associated with the menu item to which the submenu item corresponds; receiving a modification to one or more of the visual identifiers associated with a selected menu item or one of its corresponding submenu items; detecting the modification; and automatically triggering, based on the detected modification, a corresponding modification to the one or more visual identifiers associated with at least one other of the selected menu item and its corresponding submenu items.