Patent ID: 8798693

Claim:
A method for operating an ear-level device including an audio transducer, a user input, a radio and control circuitry which transmits and receives communication signals encoding audio data using the radio to and from a companion module; comprising: storing, on the ear-level device, an ordered list of functions, including functions executable using the ear-level device or the companion module; in response to a signal from a push button user input at the ear-level device, executing a sequence including: playing an audible identifier of a function selected from the ordered list on the ear-level device, wherein a function selectable from the ordered list includes a function having first and second states; and determining on the ear-level device, whether a second signal from the push button user input at the ear-level device is received within a waiting interval, and if the second user input is received within the waiting interval, generating a signal indicating selection of the selected function, wherein the signal indicating selection of said function toggles the state of the function, and if the second signal from the push button user input is not received within the waiting interval, then automatically repeating the playing and the determining for another function in the ordered list.