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

Claim 16:
17. The method of claim 16,
wherein the one or more requests include a preemptive reclaim request indicating that the network device must release a portion of the first block of network addresses,
wherein the first block of network addresses includes a first block of contiguous network addresses,
wherein adapting the size of the block of network addresses includes selecting the portion of the first block of contiguous network addresses as one or more sub-portions of the first block of contiguous network addresses that divides the first block of contiguous network addresses into two or more sub-blocks of contiguous network addresses, and
wherein adapting the size of the first block of network addresses includes releasing, responsive to preemptive reclaim request, the one or more sub-portions of the first block of contiguous network addresses.