Restoring a past configuration to a sound processor of a cochlear implant system

• US 8,818,518 B1
• Filed: 07/30/2010
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Advanced Bionics AG (Sonova Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Advanced Bionics AG (Sonova Holding AG)
• Inventors: Calle, Guillermo A., Kruger, Tracey
• Primary Examiner(s): Gedeon, Brian T
• Assistant Examiner(s): TEJANI, ANKIT D
• Application Number:
  US12/847,197
• Time in Patent Office: 1,488 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 607/57
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0541 Cochlear electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36039 fitting procedures

Abstract

An exemplary method of restoring a past configuration to a sound processor includes a fitting subsystem maintaining a configuration history including data representative of one or more past configurations of a sound processor, displaying a graphical depiction of the configuration history in a graphical user interface, receiving user input requesting that a past configuration within the one or more past configurations of the sound processor be restored to the sound processor, and utilizing data representative of the past configuration in the configuration history to restore the past configuration to the sound processor. Corresponding methods and systems are also described.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

maintaining, by a cochlear implant fitting subsystem, a configuration history including data representative of a plurality of past configurations of a sound processor of a cochlear implant system;

displaying, by the cochlear implant fitting subsystem in a graphical user interface, a table that includes a plurality of rows representing each of the past configurations of the sound processor and a graphical depiction representing the sound processor, wherein

a particular row in the table represents a past configuration included in the plurality of past configurations of the sound processor and identifies a plurality of different sound processing programs previously loaded in a plurality of slots within the sound processor during the past configuration, and

the graphical depiction representing the sound processor includes a graphical indicator that represents a current configuration of the sound processor and that identifies one or more sound processing programs currently loaded into one or more of the plurality of slots within the sound processor during the current configuration;

receiving, by the cochlear implant fitting subsystem via the graphical user interface, user input requesting that the past configuration as a whole be restored to the sound processor, the user input including a drag-and-drop operation in which a user drags the particular row to the graphical indicator included in the graphical depiction representing the sound processor; and

utilizing, by the cochlear implant fitting subsystem in response to the user input, data representative of the past configuration to restore the past configuration to the sound processor by loading the plurality of previously loaded sound processing programs into the plurality of slots within the sound processor in place of the one or more currently loaded sound processing programs.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the graphical indicator representing the current configuration of the sound processor represents the current configuration of the sound processor as a whole.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically adding, by the cochlear implant fitting subsystem, a new entry to the configuration history to represent the restoration of the past configuration to the sound processor.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the configuration history includes data representative of one or more time entries respectively corresponding to the plurality of past configurations of the sound processor; and

each time entry within the one or more time entries indicates a time at which a different past configuration within the plurality of past configurations was loaded onto the sound processor.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the maintaining comprises:

detecting a modification to the sound processor; and

recording, in response to the detecting and based on the modification to the sound processor, data representative of a configuration of the sound processor in the configuration history.

6. The method of claim 1, embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium.

7. A method comprising:

maintaining, by a cochlear implant fitting subsystem, a configuration history including data representative of a plurality of past configurations of a sound processor of a cochlear implant system;

displaying, by the cochlear implant fitting subsystem in a graphical user interface, a table that includes a plurality of rows representing each of the past configurations of the sound processor, a particular row in the table represents a past configuration included in the plurality of past configurations of the sound processor and identifies a plurality of different sound processing programs previously loaded in a plurality of slots within the sound processor during the past configuration;

displaying, by the cochlear implant fitting subsystem, a graphical depiction of the sound processor together with the table in the graphical user interface, the graphical depiction of the sound processor including a graphical indicator that represents a current configuration of the sound processor and that identifies one or more sound processing programs currently loaded into one or more of the plurality of slots within the sound processor during the current configuration;

receiving, by the cochlear implant fitting subsystem, user input requesting that the past configuration as a whole be restored to the sound processor, the user input comprising a drag-and-drop operation in which the user drags the particular row to the graphical indicator included in the graphical depiction representing the sound processor;

utilizing, by the cochlear implant fitting subsystem in response to the user input, data representative of the past configuration in the configuration history to restore the past configuration to the sound processor by loading the plurality of previously loaded sound processing programs into the plurality of slots within the sound processor in place of the one or more currently loaded sound processing programs; and

displaying, by the cochlear implant fitting subsystem in the graphical depiction of the sound processor and in response to the utilizing of the data to restore the past configuration to the sound processor, an additional graphical indicator indicating that the past configuration of the sound processor has been restored to the sound processor.

8. A system comprising:

a configuration history facility that maintains a configuration history including data representative of a plurality of past configurations of a sound processor of a cochlear implant system;

a user interface facility communicatively coupled to the configuration history facility and that

displays, in a graphical user interface, a table that includes a plurality of rows representing each of the past configurations of the sound processor and a graphical depiction representing the sound processor, wherein

a particular row in the table represents a past configuration included in the plurality of past configurations of the sound processor and identifies a plurality of different sound processing programs previously loaded in a plurality of slots within the sound processor during the past configuration, and

the graphical depiction representing the sound processor includes a graphical indicator that represents a current configuration of the sound processor and that identifies one or more sound processing programs currently loaded into one or more of the plurality of slots within the sound processor during the current configuration, and

receives, by way of the graphical user interface, user input requesting that the past configuration as a whole be restored to the sound processor, the user input including a drag-and-drop operation in which a user drags the particular row to the graphical indicator included in the graphical depiction representing the sound processor; and

a fitting facility communicatively coupled to the configuration history facility and the user interface facility and that utilizes, in response to the user input, data representative of the past configuration in the configuration history to direct a restoration of the past configuration to the sound processor by loading the plurality of previously loaded sound processing programs into the plurality of slots within the sound processor in place of the one or more currently loaded sound processing programs.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the configuration history facility is further configured to automatically add a new entry to the configuration history to represent the restoration of the past configuration to the sound processor.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein:

the configuration history includes data representative of one or more time entries respectively corresponding to the plurality of past configurations of the sound processor; and

each time entry within the one or more time entries indicates a time at which a different past configuration within the plurality of past configurations was loaded onto the sound processor.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the configuration history facility maintains the configuration history by

detecting a modification to the sound processor, and

recording, in response to the detecting and based on the modification to the sound processor, data representative of a configuration of the sound processor in the configuration history.