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US 11,115,519 B2Granted
Subscription-based wireless service for a hearing device
AssigneeK/S Himpp
InventorAdnan Shennib
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Abstract
Examples of subscription-based wireless hearing device systems and methods are described. An exemplary system includes a wireless hearing device and a personal computing device to enable or disable a wireless service of the wireless hearing device in accordance of a subscription. The subscription may be verified using subscription data or validation data received from a remote server.
Claims30
A wireless hearing device system for providing a wireless service in accordance with a subscription, comprising:
- a hearing device configured to provide hearing enhancement and to selectively provide one of a plurality of wireless services in accordance with a subscription of the hearing device to the wireless service, the wireless service being unrelated to the hearing enhancement, the hearing device comprising:
- wireless circuitry configured to communicate with an external appliance and to provide the wireless service via a wireless signal;
- a microphone;
- a processor configured to enhance sounds received by the microphone to provide the hearing enhancement;
- a memory;
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- speaker configured for placement in the ear;
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- a personal computing device configured to communicatively couple to the hearing device and provide, to the hearing device, parameters associated with the external appliance,
- wherein the wireless hearing device system is configured to validate a subscription of the hearing device to the wireless service using subscription data retrieved from a remote server, and wherein the wireless hearing device system is configured to enable or disable the wireless service responsive to subscription determination.
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A method of providing a wireless service by a wireless hearing device in accordance with a subscription, the method comprising:
- communicatively coupling a hearing device, which is configured to enhance sounds received by the hearing device to provide hearing enhancement, to a personal computing device, wherein the hearing device is further configured to communicate wirelessly with an external appliance in proximity thereto to selectively provide a wireless service unrelated to the hearing enhancement, wherein the wireless service is one of a plurality of wireless services and is selectively provided by the hearing device in accordance with a subscription of the wireless hearing device to the wireless service;
- receiving, by the personal computing device, identification data associated with the hearing device;
- receiving, by the personal computing device, subscription data from a remote server, wherein the subscription data is determined using the identification data associated with the hearing device;
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- selectively enabling the wireless service or controlling the wireless service in accordance with the subscription data;
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- transmitting a wireless signal to provide the wireless service.
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A wireless hearing device system for providing a wireless service in accordance with a subscription, comprising:
- a wireless hearing device configured to provide hearing enhancement and further configured to selectively provide a wireless service not related to the hearing enhancement, the wireless service is one of a plurality of wireless services selectively enabled for the wireless hearing device in accordance with a subscription of the wireless hearing device to the wireless service, the wireless hearing device comprising:
- wireless circuitry configured to provide a wireless signal for the wireless service;
- a speaker;
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- a memory, wherein the memory stores identification data associated with the wireless hearing device;
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- an external device configured to communicatively couple to the wireless hearing device for selectively providing the wireless service provided via the wireless service,
- wherein the wireless hearing device system is configured to selectively enable the wireless service for the wireless hearing device from the plurality of wireless services upon a valid subscription determination and to disable the wireless service upon an invalid subscription determination, without altering or disabling the hearing enhancement provided by the wireless hearing device.
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A method of providing a wireless service by a wireless hearing device in accordance with a subscription, the method comprising:
- communicatively coupling a wireless hearing device configured to provide hearing enhancement to a personal computing device, the wireless hearing device comprising a speaker configured for placement in the ear, and comprising wireless electronics configured to provide one or more wireless signals for selectively providing a selected wireless service of a plurality of available wireless services, wherein the selected wireless service is unrelated to the hearing enhancement;
- transmitting identification data associated with the wireless hearing device to the personal computing device;
- controlling the selected wireless service in accordance with a subscription of the wireless hearing device to the selected wireless service, wherein said controlling the selected wireless service comprises providing the selected wireless service by the wireless hearing device via the wireless signal responsive to a determination of a valid subscription to the selected wireless service of the plurality of available wireless services and disabling the selected wireless service of the plurality of the available wireless services responsive to an invalid subscription determination without disabling the hearing enhancement of the wireless hearing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.