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

Claim 17:
18. A method comprising:
establishing, by a remote computing system and by way of a wide area network, communication with a sound processor included within a cochlear implant system that is located remotely from the remote computing system in a different building than the remote computing system, the remote computing system including a remote storage facility that stores a repository of sound processing programs associated with different cochlear implants included within different cochlear implant systems;
receiving, by the remote computing system from the sound processor by way of the wide area network, a unique identifier of a cochlear implant included within the cochlear implant system, the cochlear implant implanted within a patient and communicatively coupled with the sound processor;
identifying, by the remote computing system based on the unique identifier of the cochlear implant, a sound processing program associated with the cochlear implant and that is included in the repository of sound processing programs, wherein:
a non-preferred version of the identified sound processing program is stored on a local storage facility associated with the sound processor,
a preferred version of the identified sound processing program is stored in the repository of the remote storage facility, and
the identified sound processing program includes customized data that represents 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; and

transmitting, by the remote computing system in response to the identifying of the sound processing program associated with the cochlear implant and by way of the wide area network, the preferred version of the identified sound processing program to the sound processor for:
replacement of the non-preferred version of the sound processing program on the local storage facility with the preferred version , and
use by the sound processor in directing the cochlear implant to apply electrical stimulation to the patient so as to at least partially restore hearing function for the patient.