Patent ID: 7035929

Claim:
A system for dynamically allocating Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for wireless cells in a communication network including wireless and wireline terminals, wireless address agents, and a system IP address server, said system IP address server including a wireless handoff IP address pool, a wireless resident IP address pool, and a wired terminal IP address pool and a predictive analysis for allocating IP addresses between said pools; and said wireless IP agents including a time-sensitive IP address pool which receives an allocation of addresses from said system IP address server and a classification process which determines if a wireless terminal requesting an IP address is a time-sensitive host or a time insensitive host, said wireless IP agent directly forwarding to the requesting wireless terminal an IP address from its time sensitive IP address pool if the requesting terminal is a time-sensitive host and forwarding the request to the system IP address server if the requesting terminal is a time insensitive host.