Patent ID: 8669995

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: establishing, by a computing device, a quantitative representation of an attribute of a graphical element to compare attributes of the graphical element to attributes of one or more groups of graphical elements; creating respective quantitative representations of an attribute of each of the one or more groups of graphical elements, the respective quantitative representations of the attribute of each of the one or more groups of graphical elements corresponding to the quantitative representation of the attribute of the graphical element, and the attribute of each of the one or more groups of graphical elements being selected based on previous grouping selections by a current user; identifying a similarity between the graphical element and the group of graphical elements by comparing the quantitative representation of the attribute of the graphical element to the respective quantitative representations of the attribute of each of the one or more groups of graphical elements; and responsive to identifying the similarity between the graphical element and a group of graphical elements among the one or more groups, adding the graphical element to the group of graphical elements to enable editing operations performed with respect to the group of graphical elements to result in changes to the graphical element.