Patent ID: 8898302

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a request from an application on a mobile device at a tunnel management module on the mobile device, the request being to establish a data connection with a network; determining if a state of a tunnel for the data connection at the tunnel management module is a stalled state, the state being a connection state and the stalled state indicating a tunnel record is allocated for the tunnel and the tunnel is not activated; blocking the connection request from proceeding to a networking access interface module of the device for transmission to the network if the tunnel for the data connection is in the stalled state; allowing the connection request to proceed to the networking access interface module of the device for transmission to the network if the tunnel for the data connection is not in the stalled state; and if the connection request is allowed to proceed to the networking access interface module for transmission to the network: receiving information from the network responsive to the connection request from the mobile device; and if the received information indicates that the connection request was rejected by the network, setting the state of the tunnel at the tunnel management module to the stalled state.