Patent ID: 11936617
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon processor-executable software instructions configured to cause a processor to perform operations for providing different internet protocol (IP) address information to user equipment (UE) devices that are connected to the same local area network (LAN), the operations comprising:
operating a default router (DR) in a default operating mode in which the DR sends unsolicited Router Advertisements (RAs) and responds to solicited RAs with non-special treatment;
ceasing sending unsolicited RAs and commencing sending an individual RA with a non-special treatment prefix to each UE link layer address on the network in response to determining that a UE device attached to the network and generated or obtained a base prefix address;
sending an unsolicited RA with a special treatment prefix to allow for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC); and
transitioning back to the default operating mode in response to determining that there are no special treatment UEs present on the network.