Patent ID: 11956597
Assignee: STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC.
Field: nan (nan)
Classification: CPC nan | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A system, comprising:
a first hearing device configured to be worn in a first ear of a wearer, the first hearing device configured to receive an audio packet from a host device, the audio packet compatible with a wireless low energy digital communication protocol;
a second hearing device configured to be worn in a second ear of the wearer, the second hearing device configured to receive the audio packet from the host device;
wherein the first hearing device and the second hearing device each include one or more processors and memory programmed with instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of:
upon one or more programmable conditions, initiating a synchronization procedure by wirelessly sending a synchronization packet including a sequence number associated with the audio packet from the first hearing device to the second hearing device using an ear-to-ear connection;
wirelessly sending an acknowledgment packet from the second hearing device to the first hearing device using the ear-to-ear connection upon receipt of the synchronization packet;
unmuting a first transducer at the first hearing device and a second transducer at the second hearing device; and
delivering synchronized audio to the first ear using the first transducer and to the second ear using the second transducer.