Patent ID: 8150527

Claim:
A method for modifying the parameters of multiple hearing devices, comprising: providing a user interface that allows a user to modify parameters of at least one of (a) a hearing aid and a cochlear implant speech processor and (b) the acoustic and electric elements of an electric-acoustic processor using software configured to provide instructions to the hearing aid and the cochlear implant speech processor, or to the acoustic and electric elements of the electric-acoustic processor, situated in the same ear for generating or applying both acoustic stimulation signals to the acoustic sensing organs of the ear and electric stimulation signals to the auditory nerve of the same ear; wherein the hearing aid and the acoustic elements of the electric-acoustic processor are devices that provide acoustic stimulation signals to the acoustic sensing organs of the ear, the acoustic stimulation signals being sound waves directed into the ear canal; wherein the cochlear implant speech processor and the electric elements of the electric-acoustic processor are devices that provide electric stimulation signals to the auditory nerve of the ear, the electric stimulation signals being stimulation current applied to electrodes implanted within the cochlea of the ear.