Abstract: The present disclosure relates to utilizing a hierarchical network communication system to efficiently manage and monitor a controlled hierarchical network. In particular, the hierarchical network communication system utilizes gateway services embedded among various architecture levels of a controlled hierarchical network to facilitate secure communications between levels of the hierarchical network as well as with an authorized external computing device or computing system. In various instances, the gateway service includes various components and elements that facilitate inter-network level communication as well as remote management, including monitoring, configuring, and upgrading components and resources at each level of the controlled hierarchical network.

Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a semantic construction of a physical environment. In some implementations, the semantic construction of the physical environment includes a representation of a physical element and a semantic label for the physical element. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining a graphical representation of the physical element. In some implementations, the method includes synthesizing a perceptual property vector (PPV) for the graphical representation of the physical element based on the semantic label for the physical element. In some implementations, the PPV includes one or more perceptual characteristic values characterizing the graphical representation of the physical element. In some implementations, the method includes compositing an affordance in association with the graphical representation of the physical element.

Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of operating the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a conductive region; a memory cell including a memory element, a first portion, a second portion, a dielectric portion, and a third portion; and a data line formed over the second and third portions of the memory cell. The memory element is formed over the conductive region. The first portion is formed over the memory element and includes a first conductive material. The second portion is formed over the first portion and includes a second conductive material. The dielectric portion includes a first side adjacent the memory element, the first portion, and the second portion. The third portion includes a third conductive material and is adjacent a second side of the dielectric portion and separated from the memory element, the first portion, and the second portion by the dielectric portion.

Abstract: Some embodiments include methods of forming diodes in which a first electrode is formed to have a pedestal extending upwardly from a base. At least one layer is deposited along an undulating topography that extends across the pedestal and base, and a second electrode is formed over the least one layer. The first electrode, at least one layer, and second electrode together form a structure that conducts current between the first and second electrodes when voltage of one polarity is applied to the structure, and that inhibits current flow between the first and second electrodes when voltage having a polarity opposite to said one polarity is applied to the structure. Some embodiments include diodes having a first electrode that contains two or more projections extending upwardly from a base, having at least one layer over the first electrode, and having a second electrode over the at least one layer.

Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes obtaining environmental data corresponding to a physical environment. In some implementations, the method includes determining, based on the environmental data, a bounding surface of the physical environment. In some implementations, the method includes detecting a physical element located within the physical environment based on the environmental data. In some implementations, the method includes determining a semantic label for the physical element based on at least a portion of the environmental data corresponding to the physical element. In some implementations, the method includes generating a semantic construction of the physical environment based on the environmental data. In some implementations, the semantic construction of the physical environment includes a representation of the bounding surface, a representation of the physical element and the semantic label for the physical element.

Abstract: A method and system for a content broker, including a unified object index, where the content broker is coupled to the unified object index and receives, from a requesting entity, a request to perform an action on an object and the object is stored in the content repository. The method further including obtaining the object associated with the request from a content repository, determining, using the unified object index, a normalized object type associated with the object, obtaining a governance rule based on the normalized object type, and servicing the request using the governance rule.

Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for granular motion control for a virtual agent. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining an action for a virtual agent. In some implementations, the action is associated with a plurality of time frames. In some implementations, the method includes, for a first time frame of the plurality of time frames, determining respective confidence scores for a plurality of granular motions that advance the virtual agent towards completion of the action. In some implementations, the method includes selecting a subset of the plurality of granular motions based on the respective confidence scores.

Abstract: In some implementations, a device includes one or more sensors, one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes determining that a first portion of a physical environment is associated with a first saliency value and a second portion of the physical environment is associated with a second saliency value that is different from the first saliency value. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining, via the one or more sensors, environmental data corresponding to the physical environment. In some implementations, the method includes generating, based on the environmental data, a model of the physical environment by modeling the first portion with a first set of modeling features that is a function of the first saliency value and modeling the second portion with a second set of modeling features that is a function of the second saliency value.

Abstract: A field effect transistor construction includes a semiconductive channel core. A source/drain region is at opposite ends of the channel core. A gate is proximate a periphery of the channel core. A gate insulator is between the gate and the channel core. The gate insulator has local regions radially there-through that have different capacitance at different circumferential locations relative to the channel core periphery. Additional constructions, and methods, are disclosed.

Abstract: A data storage system having non-volatile media, a buffer memory, a processing device, and a data pre-fetcher. The data pre-fetcher receives commands to be executed in the data storage system, provides the commands as input to a predictive model, obtains at least one command identified for pre-fetching, as output from the predictive model having the commands as input. Prior to the command being executed in the data storage device, the data pre-fetcher retrieves, from the non-volatile memory, at least a portion of data to be used in execution of the command; and stores the portion of data in the buffer memory. The retrieving and storing the portion of the data can be performed concurrently with the execution of many commands before the execution of the command, to reduce the latency impact of the command on other commands that are executed concurrently with the execution of the command.

Abstract: Field-effect transistors, and methods of forming such field-effect transistors, including a gate dielectric overlying a semiconductor material, and a control gate overlying the gate dielectric, wherein the control gate includes an instance of a first polycrystalline silicon-containing material consisting essentially of polycrystalline silicon, and an instance of a second polycrystalline silicon-containing material selected from a group consisting of polycrystalline silicon-germanium and polycrystalline silicon-germanium-carbon.

Abstract: A method and system for a content broker, including a unified object index, where the content broker is coupled to the unified object index and receives, from a requesting entity, a request to perform an action on an object and the object is stored in the content repository. The method further including obtaining the object associated with the request from a content repository, determining, using the unified object index, a normalized object type associated with the object, obtaining a governance rule based on the normalized object type, and servicing the request using the governance rule.

Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for selecting a point-of-view (POV) for displaying an environment. In some implementations, a device includes a display, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a request to display a graphical environment. The graphical environment is associated with a set of saliency values corresponding to respective portions of the graphical environment. A POV for displaying the graphical environment is selected based on the set of saliency values. The graphical environment is displayed from the selected POV on the display.

Abstract: In one implementation, a method for modeling a behavior with synthetic training data. The method includes: obtaining source content that includes an entity performing one or more actions within an environment; generating a first environment characterization vector characterizing the environment; generating a first set of behavioral trajectories associated with the one or more actions of the entity based on the source content and the first characterization vector for the environment; generating a second environment characterization vector for the environment by perturbing the first environment characterization vector; generating a second set of behavioral trajectories associated with one or more potential actions of the entity based on the source content and the second characterization vector for the environment; and training a behavior model for a virtual agent based on the first and second sets of behavioral trajectories in order to imitate the entity.

Abstract: A bidirectional power converter includes flyback converter units connected in parallel, each having a controller and adapted to accumulate power from a primary side during an ON time and to deliver the accumulated power to a secondary side during an OFF time, the primary and secondary sides being interchangeable as to the direction of power conversion, the controller operating at a boundary between discontinuous and continuous conduction modes and performing valley switching when switching from OFF to ON, one converter unit operating as a master wherein the controller is adapted to control the length of ON time in order to feedback-control an overall current output of the converter, and each other converter unit operating as a slave wherein the controller controls the length of ON time in order to feedback-control a phase delay of ON time of the slave relative to ON time of another converter unit.

Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for granular motion control for a virtual agent. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining an action for a virtual agent. In some implementations, the action is associated with a plurality of time frames. In some implementations, the method includes, for a first time frame of the plurality of time frames, determining respective confidence scores for a plurality of granular motions that advance the virtual agent towards completion of the action. In some implementations, the method includes selecting a subset of the plurality of granular motions based on the respective confidence scores.

Abstract: In one implementation, a method for generating a blended animation. The method includes: obtaining a motion input vector for a current time period; generating a motion output vector and pose information for the current time period based on the motion input vector; selecting an animated motion from a bank of animated motions for the current time period that matches the pose information within a threshold tolerance value; obtaining a blending coefficients vector for the current time period; generating a blended animation for the current time period by blending the motion output vector with the animated motion based on the blending coefficients vector; and generating a reward signal for the blended animation for the current time period.

Abstract: A field effect transistor construction includes a semiconductive channel core. A source/drain region is at opposite ends of the channel core. A gate is proximate a periphery of the channel core. A gate insulator is between the gate and the channel core. The gate insulator has local regions radially there-through that have different capacitance at different circumferential locations relative to the channel core periphery. Additional constructions, and methods, are disclosed.

Abstract: A data storage system having non-volatile media, a buffer memory, a processing device, and a data pre-fetcher. The data pre-fetcher receives commands to be executed in the data storage system, provides the commands as input to a predictive model, obtains at least one command identified for pre-fetching, as output from the predictive model having the commands as input. Prior to the command being executed in the data storage device, the data pre-fetcher retrieves, from the non-volatile memory, at least a portion of data to be used in execution of the command; and stores the portion of data in the buffer memory. The retrieving and storing the portion of the data can be performed concurrently with the execution of many commands before the execution of the command, to reduce the latency impact of the command on other commands that are executed concurrently with the execution of the command.

Abstract: In one implementation, a method for improved motion planning. The method includes: obtaining a macro task for a virtual agent within a virtual environment; generating a search-tree based on at least one of the macro task, a state of the virtual environment, and a state of the virtual agent, wherein the search-tree includes a plurality of task nodes corresponding to potential tasks for performance by the virtual agent in furtherance of the macro task; and determining physical motion plans (PMPs) for at least some of the plurality of task nodes within the search-tree in order to generate a lookahead planning gradient for the first time, wherein a granularity of a PMP for a respective task node in the first search-tree is a function of the temporal distance of the respective task node from the first time.