ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,543, issued on June 16, was assigned to DISH Network Technologies India Private Ltd. (India).

"Intelligent content priority assignment" was invented by Deepak Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and devices are provided for managing media content storage priority and retention in a single- or multi-user environment. Indications of previous user activity are received regarding multiple portions of content stored via one or more storage devices. The previous user activity may include previous user deletion selections and/or previous user viewing selections of one or more of the multiple portions of ...