Communication system

1. A system, comprising:

a first user equipment and a second user equipment configured to communicate over a shared floor;

a controlling server configured to manage the shared floor; and

at least one participating server configured to serve said first user equipment,

wherein the at least one participating server is configured to detect a connection request from said first user equipment, and to insert into the connection request from the first user equipment a token,

wherein the controlling server is configured to detect said token and to route user plane messages via the at least one participating server responsive to said token,

wherein the controlling server is further configured to detect an anonymity request from the second user equipment, and

wherein the controlling server in a mode of operation, responsive to detected the token, is configured to insert into user plane messages from the second user equipment a privacy indication,

wherein in the mode of operation the at least one participating server is responsive to said privacy indication by removing information about the second user equipment from the user plane messages.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said token is in a header of the connection request.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said token is a character string within the header.

4. The system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein said character string is string ‘media’ within a server header.

5. The system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein said character string is string ‘media’ within a contact header.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first user equipment is configured to initiate the connection request with the second user equipment via said at least one participating server using a first protocol.

7. The system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein said first protocol is a session initiation protocol.

8. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first user equipment is configured to communicate over an existing connection with said second user equipment via said at least one participating sewer using a second protocol.

9. The system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said second protocol is a real time control protocol.

10. The system as claimed in claim 9 , wherein said user plane messages are transmitted using said second protocol.

11. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said communications system comprises a push-to-talk over cellular communications system.

12. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controlling sewer comprises means for storing said inserted token.

13. The system as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:

at least one further participating sewer configured to serve said second user equipment,

wherein the controlling sewer is further configured to detect a second token from the at least one further participating server.

14. The system as claimed in claim 13 , wherein in a further mode of operation responsive to not detecting said token the controlling server is configured to remove information about the second user equipment from the user plane messages.

15. An apparatus, comprising:

a first sewer configured to operate in a communications system, wherein said first server is configured to detect a connection request from a first user equipment, and to insert into the connection request from the first user equipment a token configured to be detected and to assist in routing user plane messages via a participating server,

wherein the first sewer is responsive to detecting a privacy indication in a user plane message to remove information about a further user equipment from the user plane message; and

a second sewer configured to detect an anonymity request from the further user equipment and to insert into the user plane message from the further user equipment the privacy indication in response to detection of the token.

16. A method, comprising:

receiving at a first sewer a connection request;

inserting a token into the connection request;

transmitting the connection request comprising the token to a second sewer;

configuring a routing of user plane messages to pass through the first server responsive to receiving the token; and

receiving at said second server an anonymity request from said second user equipment, wherein the second server in a mode of operation, responsive to detecting the token, is configured to insert into the user plane messages from the second user equipment a privacy indication,

wherein the mode of operation of the first server is responsive to said privacy indication by removing information about the second user equipment from the under plane messages.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the second server in a further mode of operation removes information about a second user equipment from the user plane message prior to transmitting to a first user equipment when the token is not present at the second server.

18. An apparatus, comprising:

operating means for operating in a communications system, said communications system further comprising a first user equipment and a second user equipment in communication over a shared floor, and a second server configured to control the shared floor;

detecting means for detecting a connection request from said first user equipment, and for inserting into the connection request from the first user equipment a token to be detected and to assist in routing user plane messages via a participating server;

detecting means for detecting a privacy indication in the user plane messages to remove information about the second user equipment from the user plane message; and

detecting means for detecting an anonymity request from the second user equipment and to insert into user plane messages from the second user equipment a privacy indication in response to detection of the token.

19. The apparatus as claimed in claim 18 , wherein the first user equipment is configured to initiate the connection request with the second user equipment via said at least one participating server using a first protocol.