Patent ID: 11889269
Assignee: ADVANCED BIONICS AG
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A method comprising:
storing, on a local storage facility associated with a sound processor included within a cochlear implant system, a non-preferred version of a sound processing program associated with a cochlear implant communicatively coupled with the sound processor and implanted within a patient, the sound processing program including customized data representing a particular program by which an incoming audio signal is to be processed so as to stimulate the patient in accordance with needs or preferences of the patient as the patient uses the cochlear implant in a particular type of listening environment;
detecting, by the sound processor, a unique identifier of the cochlear implant ;
establishing, by the sound processor and by way of a wide area network, communication with a remote computing system located remotely from the cochlear implant system in a different building than the cochlear implant system;
transmitting, by the sound processor and by way of the wide area network, the unique identifier of the cochlear implant to the remote computing system;
receiving, by the sound processor in response to the transmission of the unique identifier and by way of the wide area network, a preferred version of the sound processing program;
replacing, by the sound processor, the non-preferred version of the sound processing program on the local storage facility with the preferred version of the sound processing program; and
directing, by the sound processor, the cochlear implant to apply electrical stimulation to the patient so as to at least partially restore hearing function for the patient.