Backup sound processor with multi-user functionality

A system comprising:

• a sound processor that
• maintains, within a first memory slot corresponding to a first program switch position, data representative of a first set of sound processing programs associated with the first memory slot and with a plurality of cochlear implants implanted within a plurality of users, and
• maintains, within a second memory slot corresponding to a second program switch position, data representative of a second set of sound processing programs associated with the second memory slot and with the plurality of cochlear implants implanted within the plurality of users;
• and
• a fitting system configured to selectively and communicatively couple to the sound processor;
• wherein the fitting system provides the data representative of the first set of sound processing programs and the data representative of the second set of sound processing programs to the sound processor while the fitting system is communicatively coupled to the sound processor.

A method comprising:

• maintaining, by a sound processor within a first memory slot corresponding to a first program switch position, data representative of a first set of sound processing programs associated with the first memory slot and with a plurality of cochlear implants implanted within a plurality of users;
• maintaining, by the sound processor within a second memory slot corresponding to a second program switch position, data representative of a second set of sound processing programs associated with the second memory slot and with the plurality of cochlear implants implanted within the plurality of users;
• detecting, by the sound processor, a communicative coupling of the sound processor to a cochlear implant included in the plurality of cochlear implants;
• and
• in response to the communicative coupling,
• determining, by the sound processor, an identifier unique to the cochlear implant,
• determining, by the sound processor, that a program switch associated with the sound processor is in the first program switch position,
• querying, by the sound processor in accordance with the determination that the program switch is in the first program switch position, the first set of sound processing programs to identify a sound processing program included in the first set of sound processing programs that is associated with the determined identifier, and
• operating, by the sound processor, in accordance with the identified sound processing program.