Patent ID: 8224004

Claim:
A hearing system comprising at least one hearing device having a signal processing unit with a control input operationally connected to a device communication port, and a remote control device comprising a wireless communication port for single- or bi-directional wireless communication with said device communication port, an embedded computer in said remote control device operated by an operating system, an output thereof being operationally connected to said wireless communication port and to at least one machine/man interface at said remote control device, an input thereof being operationally connected to at least one man/machine interface at said remote control device, a set of hearing device-specific application programs executable by said embedded computer and corresponding to a plurality of different hearing device types, said remote control device being operatable via said man/machine interface to adjust at least the momentarily prevailing volume at said hearing device, wherein the remote control device identifies said hearing device and automatically selects and executes a hearing device-specific application program corresponding to the identified hearing device, from said set of hearing device-specific application programs corresponding to the plurality of different hearing device types.