Patent ID: 8380717

Claim:
A method for improving communication confidentiality including the following steps: storing in a data repository, authorization status data about one or more confidential subjects for each user of a telecommunication network, said authorization status data indicating whether each user is authorized or not authorized to communicate with other users about the one or more confidential subjects; receiving a request with identity information of a first and a second users from a user telecommunication device of said first user; determining the identities of said first and second users from the identity information in the received request; accessing the data repository using the identities from the determining step and comparing authorization status data about one or more confidential subjects for said first user with authorization status data for said second user; using said comparison results to select a first type of data about confidential subjects about which both users are authorized to communicate; using said comparison results to select a second type of data about confidential subjects about which said first user is authorized to communicate and said second user is not authorized to communicate; sending selected data about confidential subjects of both said first and second type to said first user telecommunication device for display to the first user.