Patent ID: 8358785

Claim:
A hearing aid system, comprising: at least two spatially separated hearing aid units wore on left ear and right ear of a user, respectively, and the each hearing aid unit having a transceiver for enabling wireless communication, wherein each transceiver includes an inductive receiving device and a digital wideband pulse transmitter; a portable communication station structurally separated from the at least two hearing aid units and wherein a signal including a data signal and a control signal is transmitted from the digital wideband pulse transmitter of the transceiver of the one hearing aid unit to the portable communication station and then transmitted from the portable communication station to the inductive receiving device of the transceiver of the other one hearing aid unit so that a power consumption and an overall size of each hearing aid unit are reduced; and a configuration device that can be coupled to the portable communication station for configuration purpose and communicated with the portable communication station by using a bidirectional communication and wherein the portable communication station is configured by the configuration device to provide quasi-simultaneous communication of the signal between the at least two hearing aid units through the portable communication station.