US 11,924,374 B2Granted

System for real time, remote access to and adjustment of patient hearing aid with patient in normal life environment

AssigneeCochlear Limited

InventorDeborah M. Manchester

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Abstract

Real time, remote access to and adjustment of the hearing aid of a patient while the patient is located in a normal life environment that is remote from a hearing professional. A session request initiates a programming session. Adjustable settings from the patient's hearing aid are wirelessly streamed to the patient's mobile device and from the mobile device to a streaming cloud server. The settings are stored on the cloud, streamed from the cloud to a hearing professional's computer or mobile device and displayed. The hearing professional then changes at least one of the adjustable hearing aid settings and the changed settings are streamed to the cloud, stored on the cloud, streamed from the cloud to the patient's mobile device, wirelessly transmitted to the hearing aid and stored there. A telephonic voice connection between the hearing professional and the patient's mobile device is used to transmit the patient's evaluation of changed settings to the hearing professional.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A mobile device including an executable application supporting access to and adjustment of a patient's hearing aid, the mobile device comprising:

a processor and memory storing a mobile application, the mobile application configured for:
connecting to a cloud-based platform and to the patient's hearing aid;
communicating adjustable settings for the patient's hearing aid to the cloud-based platform;
transmitting, through a connection from a microphone cooperatively coupled with the mobile device, environmental sounds of a normal life environment;
receiving from the cloud-based platform, a changed setting for at least one of the adjustable settings, the changed setting being stored in the cloud-based platform;
and
communicating one or more changed settings, to the patient's hearing aid for storage of the changed setting by the patient's hearing aid, thereby enabling access to and adjustment of the patient's hearing aid, wherein
the mobile application is further configured for providing access by a hearing professional's mobile device or computer to the adjustable settings via the cloud-based platform, and
the mobile device is configured to receive, from the cloud-based platform, a request for a session with the hearing professional, the request for the session being initiated by the hearing professional's mobile device or computer.

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Facts

Application: 17/834,883Filed 7 Jun 2022 · continuation
Priority: 6 Sep 2015
Published: US 2022/0311863 A129 Sep 2022
Granted: 5 Mar 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04M 3/42391
Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers: where the subscribers are hearing-impaired persons, e.g. telephone devices for…
G16H 20/30
ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient…:…
G16H 40/67
For the operation of medical equipment or devices: for remote operation
H04M 3/42136
Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers: administration or customisation of services

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Application62/215,032Us provisional application · filed 6 Sep 2015
Application15/158,667Parent of this continuation · filed 19 May 2016
Application16/428,337Parent of this continuation · filed 31 May 2019
US 10,348,891 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Jul 2019
Application16/846,184Parent of this continuation · filed 10 Apr 2020
US 10,623,564 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Apr 2020
US 2022/0311863 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Sep 2022
US 11,375,061 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0201839 A1Published application
US 2019/0289129 A1Published application
US 2020/0244801 A1Published application
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