Patent ID: 8224929

Claim:
A content polling system of a computing network, comprising: a content polling module configured to: identify a set of two or more participant mobile devices within a participation region of a wireless network; transmit a content polling request to each participant mobile device of the set of two or more participant mobile devices via the wireless network, the content polling request executable by each participant mobile device to return a content polling response to the content polling module; receive the content polling response from each participant mobile device via the wireless network, the content polling response received from each participant mobile device indicating an attribute of one or more media content items stored at that participant mobile device or previously accessed via that participant mobile device; and transmit a content selection request to a content selection module, the content selection request indicating the attributes of the content polling responses received from the set of two or more participant mobile devices, the content selection request executable by the content selection module to return a content selection response indicating selected media content selected by the content selection module responsive to the attributes indicated by the content selection request.