Patent ID: 8825063

Claim:
A method in a wireless user device configured as one in a set of private user devices of an organization which includes a private communication network, the method comprising: maintaining wireless access with and operating in a public land mobile network; and while maintaining the wireless access with and operating in the public land mobile network, participating, with one or more other devices outside of the set of private user devices, in an instant communication session delivered via a carrier instant communications processing element of the public land mobile network; wherein, in the instant communication session, instant session communications from the wireless user device are routed from the public land mobile network to a processing element of the private communication network which is external to the public land mobile network, for assignment by the processing element of a generic identifier associated with the set of private user devices in place of a user identifier of the wireless user device, and further routed to the carrier instant communications processing element for delivery to the one or more other devices in the instant communication session, so that the instant session communications from the wireless user device are identified as being from the generic identifier instead of the user identifier, wherein the generic identifier is assigned to instant session communications from other private user devices in the set of private user devices in the instant communication session in place of user identifiers of the other private user devices, and the instant session communications from the wireless user device and the other private user devices are treated as coming from a single device in the instant communication session.