Patent ID: 8732280

Claim:
A method for locating a target operation node, comprising: obtaining by a Device Management (DM) client in a terminal device, a management command sent by a DM server, wherein the management command comprises Management Object (MO) location information for identifying an MO, feature node information for identifying an MO instance to be operated, and target operation node information for identifying the target operation node; after obtaining the management command, determining by the DM client, a first absolute Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of a root node of the MO instance to be operated according to the MO location information and the feature node information, wherein the first absolute URI of the root node of the MO instance to be operated starts from a root node of a management tree; constructing by the DM client, a second absolute URI of the target operation node by concatenating the first absolute URI of the root node of the MO instance to be operated and a relative URI of the target operation node, wherein the relative URI of the target operation node is relative to the root node of the MO instance to be operated, and the second absolute URI of the target operation node starts from the root node of the management tree; and locating by the DM client, the target operation node using the second absolute URI of the target operation node.