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A biometric sensor may be coupled to a portable communications device, such as a cellular telephone. The biometric sensor may be configured to acquire one or more measurements of biological characteristics of an individual. One or more of the measurements may relate to internal, sub-epidermal charac

A biometric sensor may be coupled to a portable communications device, such as a cellular telephone. The biometric sensor may be configured to acquire one or more measurements of biological characteristics of an individual. One or more of the measurements may relate to internal, sub-epidermal characteristics of the individual, such as non-volitional processes occurring within the individual, sub-epidermal structures within the individual, or the like. A biometric marker may be derived from one or more of the measurements. The portable communications device may be activated responsive to deriving the biometric marker. The activation may include transmitting the measurements and/or biometric markers derived therefrom to a receiver using the portable communications device.

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We claim: 1. A method for acquiring biometric measurements of an individual using a portable communications device having an integral biometric sensor comprising an energy emitter and an energy sensor, the method comprising:measuring a plurality of internal, sub-epidermal characteristics of an indiv

We claim: 1. A method for acquiring biometric measurements of an individual using a portable communications device having an integral biometric sensor comprising an energy emitter and an energy sensor, the method comprising:measuring a plurality of internal, sub-epidermal characteristics of an individual using the biometric sensor by,transmitting one or more energy signals into the individual using the energy emitter,receiving one or more energy signals responsive to the transmitting using the energy sensor, anddetermining a plurality of measurements of internal, sub-epidermal characteristics of the individual using the received energy signals;deriving a biometric marker from one or more of the plurality of measurements;transmitting the biometric marker and one or more of the measurements of internal, sub-epidermal characteristics of the individual to a receiver using the portable communication device;identifying information describing the individual using the transmitted biometric marker; andperforming a monitoring function using the transmitted measurements, bycomparing the transmitted measurements to one or more thresholds defined in an individual profile, andtransmitting an alert to the portable communications device when one or more of the transmitted measurements diverge from the one or more thresholds.