Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Mark E Boettcher

Michael Dean Whitmarsh

Luca Chiarabini

Xavier Boix

Nathan D Mellor

A system and method are provided for enabling faster downloading and printing of data received from an external content source. In one embodiment, the method is segmenting the data file available on a content source external to the user computing device into a plurality of portions; independently downloading to said computing device each of said plurality of portions; and assembling each downloaded portion into a second data file on said computing device, to mach such first data file. In a second embodiment the method is (a) selecting a first data file to be printed from said plurality of data files; (b) downloading said selected data file form a content source external to a computing device connected to the printer, (c) once said selected data file is entirely downloaded into said computing device, processing said selected data file and sending the processed data to the printer for printing; and (d) during said steps of processing and sending, selecting the following data file from said plurality of data files and repeating steps (b) (c) and (d) for said selected data file.

System and method for downloading and for printing data from an external content source

A method of determining a near neighbor to a target point in multidimensional space from among a set of candidate points includes generating a matrix of bins and identifying a first bin that contains the target point. The first bin is searched for a first candidate point, and a set of proximate bins selected from the matrix are identified. Each of the proximate bins has at least a portion potentially closer to a first selected point in the first bin than is a second selected point in the first bin.

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Vancouver, WA, United States of America

Mark E Boettcher