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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2016
Sonova Ag, Staefa, CH;
Georg Dickmann, Ebmatingen, CH;
Daniel Lucas-Hirtz, Rapperswil, CH;
Sonova AG, Staefa, CH;
Abstract
There is provided a hearing device () comprising a BTLE 4.1 or higher wireless interface () and a control unit () for handling connectivity via the wireless interface to a plurality of client devices () wherein the control unit is configured to direct the hearing device to transmit connectable advertising packets at least as long as less than N client devices are connected to the hearing device via a protected connection () and less than N+1 client devices are connected to the hearing device in total; wherein the control unit is further configured to prevent that the hearing device maintains sustained connections to more than N client devices at a time by disconnecting, if the hearing device is connected to N client devices via sustained connections and at least one of these connections is not a protected connection, one of the client devices connected via a not protected connection once a new sustained connection to a client device has been established in addition to the N connections, with N≥2.