Patent ID: 8942396
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: H04L,H04R

Abstract:
1. A binaural hearing system, comprising: a left-ear hearing device, a right-ear hearing device and an auxiliary device, each device comprising a radio transmitter for transmitting messages, each hearing device comprising a radio receiver for receiving messages, the auxiliary device being adapted to transmit application messages, each of the hearing devices being adapted to receive the application messages and to transmit non-acknowledgement messages indicating that the application messages were not correctly received, a first one of the hearing devices being adapted to transmit and thus relay received application messages, a second one of the hearing devices being adapted to receive relayed application messages, wherein the first hearing device is adapted to relay the received application messages in dependence on receiving non-acknowledgment messages transmitted by the second hearing device, and wherein each of the devices is further configured to transmit application messages only within time slots allocated to that device.