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IP address management

  • US 7,590,742 B2
  • Filed: 03/03/2004
  • Issued: 09/15/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • an address management entity comprising at least one queue configured to hold released addresses, said address management entity configured todetect that a packet has been addressed to a released address held in the at least one queue, andreturn the held address to which the packet has been addressed to an end of the at least one queue, andwherein the size of the at least one queue is variable and depends on a number of released addresses of correspondent nodes of previous users, and wherein a next address that is selected to be reassigned to a next new user is selected from a first address position of the at least one queue.

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