METHOD FOR DISCOVERING USER OF EQUIPMENT, AND USER EQUIPMENT

摘要

The present invention discloses a method and user equipment for discovering a device user, to improve security of user identifier information, so that user equipments discover each other securely. The method includes: receiving a first message that is sent by a second user equipment and at least includes implicit user identifier information of the second user equipment; obtaining, according to correspondences stored in a first user equipment, a user identifier corresponding to the implicit user identifier information of the second user equipment; and determining, in the user identifier corresponding to the implicit user identifier information of the second user equipment, a user identifier of the second user equipment, to discover a user of the second user equipment. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications.