METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICES IN A BLUETOOTH NETWORK

摘要

A hearing assistance system provides for wireless communication between hearing assistance devices that are in a Bluetooth connection with a host device. In various embodiments, during a Bluetooth connection interval, one or more time slots are used for communication between the host device and one or more of the hearing assistance devices, while one or more additional time slots are reserved for communication between the hearing assistance devices.

主权项

1. A hearing assistance system, comprising:
a host device including a master control circuit; a plurality of hearing assistance devices each including a slave control circuit; one or more first wireless communication links each configured to communicatively couple a hearing assistance device of the plurality of hearing assistance devices to the host device using a Bluetooth protocol; one or more second wireless communication links each configured to communicative couple a hearing assistance device of the plurality of hearing assistance devices to another hearing assistance device of the plurality of hearing assistance devices; and a network control system including the master control circuit and the slave control circuits, the network control system configured to assign one or more first time slots for the communication over each first link of the one or more first wireless communication links within a Bluetooth connection interval and one or more second time slots for the communication over each second link of the one or more second wireless communication links within the Bluetooth connection interval, the first and second time slots non-overlapping in time.