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

Claim 0:
1. A cochlear implant system comprising:
a cochlear implant configured to be implanted within a patient; and
a sound processor communicatively coupled to the cochlear implant and configured to:
store, on a local storage facility associated with the sound processor, a non-preferred version of a sound processing program associated with the cochlear implant and 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;
detect a unique identifier of the cochlear implant;
establish, 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;
transmit, to the remote computing system by way of the wide area network, the unique identifier of the cochlear implant;
receive, 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;
replace the non-preferred version of the sound processing program on the local storage facility with the preferred version of the sound processing program; and
direct the cochlear implant to apply electrical stimulation to the patient so as to at least partially restore hearing function for the patient.