Patent ID: 11888814
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A method of distributing a first block of network addresses, the method comprising:
receiving, by a network address manager proxy executed by a first network element responsible for allocating the first block of network addresses within a first network and from a network address manager executed by a computing device, an allocation of the first block of network addresses;
interfacing, by the network address manager proxy and with the network address manager, to specify a first number of available network addresses within the first block of network addresses that are available for allocation to first clients;
receiving, by the network address manager proxy and from the network address manager responsive to specifying the first number of available network addresses, one or more requests that manage a size of the first block of network addresses to address inefficient distribution of available network addresses within either or both of the first block of network addresses or a second block of network addresses distributed by a second network device for a second network; and
adapting, by the network address manager proxy and responsive to the one or more requests, the size of the first block of network addresses.