Patent ID: 8813217

Claim:
A method for authorizing and charging a host with multiple addresses assigned to the host in an IPv6 network comprising an Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) server and a network access server, comprising: determining, by the AAA server, authorized multiple addresses of the host and a respective authorization status for each of the authorized multiple addresses of the host; transmitting, to the network access server, a first packet containing authorization information in an extensible field of the first packet, wherein the authorization information comprises the respective authorization status for each of the authorized multiple addresses of the host, and the respective authorization status is unique to each individual address of the authorized multiple addresses of the host; receiving, by the AAA server, a second packet containing accounting information in an extensible field of the second packet from the network access server, wherein the accounting information comprises a respective accounting policy that is unique to each of the authorized multiple addresses of the host; and charging, by the AAA server, the authorized multiple addresses of the host respectively according to the accounting information corresponding to the authorized multiple addresses of the host, wherein the AAA server charges the authorized multiple addresses differently based on the respective accounting policy that is unique to each of the authorized multiple addresses of the host.