Patent ID: 8538049

Claim:
A hearing aid comprising: a microphone to convert sounds into electrical signals; a transceiver configured to communicate with a computing device through a wireless communication channel; a processor coupled to the microphone and the transceiver; a memory accessible to the processor and configured to store a lookup table including a plurality of hearing aid profile identifiers (IDs) and a plurality of usability values, each of the plurality of hearing aid profile IDs corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of hearing aid profiles and each of the plurality of usability values corresponding to one of the plurality of hearing aid profile IDs, the memory configured to store instructions that, when executed by the processor cause the processor to: identify a hearing aid profile ID from the lookup table based on a sound sample by comparing a parameter associated with the sound sample to at least one of the plurality of usability values to identify an approximate match; retrieve a hearing aid profile from the computing device using the hearing aid profile ID; and apply the hearing aid profile to modulate an audio output signal.