Patent ID: 7283842

Claim:
A method for improving at least one self-contained hearing aid for an individual, said hearing aid having an acoustical/electrical input converter arrangement, an electrical/mechanical output converter arrangement and a signal processing unit interconnected between an output of said acoustical/electrical input converter arrangement and an input to said electrical/mechanical output converter arrangement, said method comprising at least one of optimizing fitting of said hearing aid and of updating signal processing in said processing unit by establishing a first communication link between said hearing aid and a cell phone having an antenna and communication properties normal to a cell phone; establishing a second communication link between said cell phone via said antenna to a remote data base; downloading by said second communication link data from said remote data base to said cell phone; communicating by said first communication link data which depend from said data downloaded to said hearing aid; performing said at least one of said optimizing and of said updating in background during said normal cell phone operation.