Patent ID: 8335526

Claim:
A system, for soliciting response data related to a transient condition, comprising: a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: determining the transient condition based on a characteristic selected from a group of characteristics consisting of an environmental characteristic and a mobile device user characteristic, wherein the mobile device user characteristic does not include solely a location requirement; identifying mobile devices that meet the transient condition; identifying mobile devices that meet both a less-accurate proximity, qualification and a more-accurate proximity qualification, comprising: determining approximate presence data associated with each of the mobile devices without contacting the mobile devices; obtaining more-accurate presence data for only those mobile devices for which the approximate presence data meets the less-accurate proximity qualification; and identifying mobile devices, of the mobile devices for which the more-accurate presence data was obtained, for which the more-accurate presence data meets the more-accurate proximity qualification; and generating a solicitation for transmission to at least some of the mobile devices that meet the transient condition and the more-accurate proximity qualification.