Patent Document ID: 9367523
Application ID: 12862940
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for using design features to find page layout designs, comprising: performing, by one or more computing devices: analyzing a plurality of page layout designs to determine a set of style scores for each respective page layout design, each style score in the set of style scores representing a style dimension of the respective page layout design, the style dimension defined by a set of characteristics that include at least two alternatives, one to another, the style dimension determined at least in part by a function which weights design feature values according to a relative importance of a design feature; receiving a user indication of an example page layout design, and searching for page layout designs similar to the example page layout design by at least: using the style scores of the example page layout design as search query entries to identify page layout designs of the plurality of page layout designs that are similar to the example page layout design; comparing one or more additional sets of style scores for the example page layout design to the set of style scores for each respective page layout design; and based on said comparing, selecting one or more of the plurality of page layout designs based on the similarity to the example page layout design; and displaying an indication of the one or more selected page layout designs as a result of the search.