Patent ID: 9591034
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for managing an address resource, comprising: receiving, by a first gateway device, a connection request from a user terminal; sending, by the first gateway device, an address delegation request message to a management gateway device in a same gateway group as the first gateway device, wherein the management gateway device is configured to manage one or more address pools, and each address pool comprises one or more addresses; receiving, by the first gateway device, a response message sent by the management gateway device, wherein the response message comprises a delegated address pool comprising one or more delegated addresses managed by the management gateway device; acquiring, by the first gateway device, the delegated address pool in the response message; and allocating, by the first gateway device, one of the one or more delegated addresses in the delegated address pool to the user terminal in a user group to identify the user terminal; wherein the first gateway device is configured to connect the user terminal to an external destination via only the first gateway device of the gateway group.