Third-party control of hearing device, hearing device and related methods

Abstract

A hearing device and methods for operating a hearing device is disclosed, the hearing device comprising a processing unit configured to compensate for hearing loss of a user of the hearing device; an interface; and a memory unit, wherein the memory unit has stored therein: a first primary certificate comprising a first primary hearing device identifier; and a second primary certificate comprising a second primary hearing device identifier and second key data for third-party control of the hearing device, the second key data comprising one or more second keysets including a second primary keyset, wherein the processing unit is configured to verify the second primary certificate; and in accordance with a successful verification of the second primary certificate, communicate with a third-party entity based on the second key data.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.