(19)
(11) EP 1 628 503 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
15.03.2006 Bulletin 2006/11

(43) Date of publication A2:
22.02.2006 Bulletin 2006/08

(21) Application number: 05023948.2

(22) Date of filing: 03.11.2005
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
H04R 25/00(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL BA HR MK YU

(71) Applicant: Phonak AG
8712 Stäfa (CH)

(72) Inventors:
  • Launer, Stefan
    8053 Zürich (CH)
  • Hasler, Ivo
    8404 Winterthur (CH)
  • Schneider, Philip
    8049 Zürich (CH)

(74) Representative: Troesch Scheidegger Werner AG 
Schwäntenmos 14
8126 Zumikon
8126 Zumikon (CH)

   


(54) Hearing system, hearing device and method of operating and method of maintaining a hearing device


(57) The hearing device (10) is adapted to automatically requesting an establishment of a communication connection (2) to at least one hearing device support provider (3), as a person knowledgeable in hearing devices, at the hearing device seller and/or at the hearing device manufacturer. Said automatically requesting said establishment of said communication connection (2) will usually happen, when at least one change in internal status of the hearing device (10) occurs, like a failure or a memory overflow or the upcome of a repeatedly occuring event. The hearing device (10) may by itself decide upon the type of change in internal status, which hearing device support provider (3) to connect to. Typically, at least one long-range communication connection (21) is involved.







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