Patent ID: 7024000

Claim:
A method for remotely adjusting a hearing aid of a user, comprising the steps of: generating a command via a first computer at a first location; transmitting the command to a second computer at a second location over a remote data link; sending the command from the second computer to a digital signal processor in the hearing aid as a DTMF tone; outputting a test tone from the digital signal processor based on the command to a user of a telephone wearing the hearing aid; receiving a user response to the test tone over the remote data link; and adjusting the hearing aid based on the user response to the test tone, wherein: said adjusting step comprises the steps of: transmitting the user response to the first computer over the remote data link; retrieving a stored audiogram from memory based on an accuracy of the response; and uploading the audiogram into the hearing aid of the user over the remote data link; and said audiogram is a compensation curve for adjusting performance characteristics of the hearing aid based on the user response.