Instant communications system having established communication channels between communication devices

A first communication device for instantaneous device communication, the system comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• receive from a user a spoken command for initiating instantaneous device communication with a second communication device, the spoken command indicating the second communication device;
• determine a device identifier associated with the second communication device based upon the spoken command;
• initiate a communication channel for instantaneous device communication with the second communication device using the device identifier associated with the second communication device, the communication channel configured to support one or more media streams over an Internet Protocol (IP) network with the second communication device;
• receive a media stream input;
• transmit an outgoing media stream containing the media stream input generated using an audio mixer of the first communication device to the second communication device via the communication channel,
• wherein the processor is configured to execute the audio mixer of the first communication device for at least one of:
• hosting, co-hosting, and participating in one of:
• a conference call and a broadcast call with a second audio mixer of the second communication device indicated by the spoken command, and
• wherein the audio mixer is configured to daisy chain with the second audio mixer for the conference call or the broadcast call with a second audio mixer of the second communication device indicated by the spoken command;
• and
• upon receiving a next media stream input via the communication channel from the second communication device during the one of the conference call or the broadcast call between the audio mixer and the second audio mixer, automatically playback, by the first communication device, media content by the audio mixer using the next media stream input from the second audio mixer.

A first communication device for providing instantaneous communications, the first communication device comprising:

• a memory configured to store a plurality of communication device identifiers, wherein each respective communication device identifier is associated with a communication device;
• a first user control that provides a first command for communicating with a second communication device, the second communication device being associated with a second communication device identifier of the plurality of communication device identifiers stored in the memory;
• and
• a processor in communication with the memory, the processor configured to:
• configure a first communication channel for instantaneous communications associated with the second communication device, the first communication channel configured to support one or more multimedia streams transmitted over an internet protocol (IP) network with the second communication device based upon the second communication device identifier;
• receive the first command for communicating with the second communication device when the first user control is manipulated by a user;
• and
• transmit over the IP network a first outgoing multimedia stream to the second communication device using the configured first communication channel in response to the processor receiving the first command.

A method for providing instantaneous communications, the method comprising:

• storing, by a processor of a first communication device, in a memory in communication with the processor, a plurality of communication device identifiers, each respective communication device identifier corresponding to one or more communication devices;
• configuring, by the processor, a first communication channel to support one or more multimedia streams for instantaneous communications transmitted with a second communication device over an internet protocol (IP) network, the second communication device being associated with a second communication device identifier selected from the plurality of communication device identifiers;
• receiving, by the processor, a first command when a first user control of the first communication device is manipulated by a user, wherein the first user control is configured to provide to the processor the first command instructing the processor to communicate with the second communication device associated with the second communication device identifier;
• and
• responsive to the processor receiving the first command:
• transmitting, by the processor, a first outgoing multimedia stream of the one or more outgoing media streams over the IP network to the second communication device using the first communication channel.