ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,556, issued on May 19, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.) and DISH Network Technologies India Private Ltd. (India).

"Filtering television content based on viewer classifications" was invented by Shailesh Deshmukh (Livermore, Calif.) and Bala Krishna Nelluri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods, systems, and media for filtering content items in a streaming service. In an embodiment, an exemplary method include classifying a user of a streaming service into one of a plurality of groups based on watch behavior of the user in a first past period, each of the plurality of groups bei...