Patent ID: 8386518

Claim:
A method for managing confidential data of users of communicating objects that is recorded in a server, the communicating objects and the server communicating through a telecommunication network, comprising the following steps: storing, in the server, encoded confidential data and an associated reference for each confidential datum, transmitted from users of communicating objects to the server, wherein each reference associated with a confidential datum is a unique reference selected by and characterizing a particular user; searching, by a first user from a first communicating object, for a unique reference of a second user among stored encoded confidential data and unique references associated therewith in the server as a function of at least one encoded search datum transmitted from the first user of the first communicating object; determining if the at least one encoded search datum transmitted by the first user of the first communicating object corresponds to at least one encoded confidential datum of a second user stored in the server; and if the at least one encoded search datum is determined to correspond to an encoded confidential datum of a second user, transmitting, by the server, at least one unique reference of the second user associated with the determined corresponding encoded confidential datum to the first user of the first communicating object.