Patent ID: 8572265

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, by a queue manager on a mobile device that has a network interface, that a network connection has been established or will be established through the network interface; in response to determining that the network connection has been established or will be established, applying, by the queue manager, one or more rules to multiple requests that have been initiated by a particular application and queued since a previous network connection had been established through the network interface, to classify fewer than all of the requests that have been initiated by the particular application and queued since the previous network connection had been established as requests that are to be fulfilled the classification being based on a rule database that associates each of a plurality of applications with one or more of a plurality of rules; and causing, by the queue manager, the fewer than all of the requests that have been initiated by the particular application and queued since the previous network connection had been established to be fulfilled.