Patent ID: 8751665

Claim:
A method for a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) to report a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the method comprising: obtaining an Internet Protocol (IP) address and static information; registering the IP address and the static information with a Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) server; constructing a first connection request URL that carries the static information but does not carry the IP address; and reporting the first connection request URL to an Auto Configuration Server (ACS), wherein the ACS obtains the IP address from the DDNS server through the static information in the first connection request URL, and wherein if a new IP address is obtained, the method further comprising: registering the new IP address and the static information with the DDNS server, which substitutes the new IP address for the IP address; wherein all connection request URL reported by the CPE to the ACS never carries the IP address.