Patent ID: 8542842
Filing Date: 2013-09-24
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
1. Arrangement for interactive real-time remote analysis and adjustment of a hearing aid for a hearing patient, in which a hearing aid clinician at a central clinic location is able to analyze and adjust performance and program settings of one or more programmable hearing aids of a hearing patient who is present at a patient location that is remote from said central clinic location, the arrangement comprising at said central clinic location, a suitably programmed computer having a processor, an interface device for use by the clinician, a video monitor screen, and an Internet connection to connect the clinician computer with a global computer network; and software permitting analysis of program settings of a patient's hearing aid in real time by the clinician and permitting the clinician at the central clinic location to adjust the settings of the hearing aid while the patient is wearing the aid; and software providing real time communication between the clinician and the patient at the remote patient location; at said remote patient location, a patient-operated computer including a processor, a video monitor screen, a patient-computer interface device, and an Internet connection to connect the patient computer with said global computer network; software installed on said patient computer to permit the clinician to obtain a remote connection to gain control of the patient computer, to analyze program settings of the patient hearing aid and adjust the patient's hearing aid by use of the interface device of the clinician computer; and a wireless device connected with the patient computer and communicating wirelessly with the patient's hearing aid at the patient location, the device being able to transmit data corresponding to program settings of the hearing aid between the hearing aid and the patient computer, and thence between the patient computer and the computer at the central clinic location.