Hearing device with wireless interface
AssigneeSonova AG
InventorsGeorg Dickmann, Daniel Lucas-Hirtz
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AssigneeSonova AG
InventorsGeorg Dickmann, Daniel Lucas-Hirtz
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There is provided a hearing device (10) comprising a BTLE 4.1 or higher wireless interface (20) and a control unit (38) for handling connectivity via the wireless interface to a plurality of client devices (40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 54, 56) wherein the control unit is configured to direct the hearing device to transmit connectable advertising packets at least as long as less than N client devices are connected to the hearing device via a protected connection (30) and less than N+1 client devices are connected to the hearing device in total; wherein the control unit is further configured to prevent that the hearing device maintains sustained connections to more than N client devices at a time by disconnecting, if the hearing device is connected to N client devices via sustained connections and at least one of these connections is not a protected connection, one of the client devices connected via a not protected connection once a new sustained connection to a client device has been established in addition to the N connections, with N≥2.
A hearing device comprising a wireless interface and a control unit for handling connectivity via the wireless interface to a plurality of client devices, wherein the control unit is configured to direct the hearing device to limit the number of connections between the hearing device and client devices to N, wherein N>2, by disconnecting a client device every time an N+1 client device establishes a connection where the number N is referred to as sustained connections and any additional connection exceeding the number N is referred to as temporary connection, wherein the control unit is further configured to direct the hearing device to transmit connectable advertising packets as long as less than N client devices are connected to the hearing device.
A method of handling connectivity of a hearing device comprising a wireless interface via the wireless interface to a plurality of client devices, comprising:
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