US 12,069,437 B2
Direct informative communication through an ear-wearable device
Michael D. Stapf, Prior Lake, MN (US); and Collin Steven Jasnoch, Savage, MN (US)
Assigned to Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/621,580
Filed by Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 25, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/039677
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 21, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/264203, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/868,071, filed on Jun. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0360913 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04R 25/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 25/554 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0026 (2013.01); A61B 5/746 (2013.01); H04R 2225/55 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing high-priority notification messages to a user of an ear-wearable device system comprising one or more physiological sensors and an ear-wearable device, the method comprising:
receiving a plurality of sensor messages from the one or more physiological sensors;
identifying whether there is any high-priority sensor information from among the plurality of received sensor messages;
if high-priority sensor information is identified from among the plurality of received sensor messages, then identifying content for an audio voice message containing or based on the high-priority sensor information to provide to the user; and
providing the audio voice message at a speaker of the ear-wearable device.