Patent ID: 8019321

Claim:
A wireless mobile phone comprising: a processor; a transceiver coupled to the processor, and configured to facilitate wireless telephony communication by a user; a reader coupled to the processor and configured to read a reference heart beat profile of the user from an identity card of the user, wherein the identity card is external to, and not part of the wireless mobile; a plurality of sensors coupled to the processor, and configured to facilitate real time capturing of a heart beat profile of the user from the user's hand; and operating logic configured to be operated by the processor, to receive the real time captured heart beat profile of the user, to authenticate the user by comparing the real time captured heart beat profile with the reference heart beat profile, and to selectively operate the wireless mobile phone depending on whether the user is successfully authenticated based at least in part on a result of the comparison; wherein the operating logic is further configured to save the real time captured heart beat profile of the user as another reference heart beat profile for future authentication.