Patent ID: 8078723

Claim:
A dispatching method, comprising: receiving a request initiated by a user terminal, wherein the request carries address information of the user terminal; obtaining the address information carried in the request and obtaining key information of an access server associated with the address information; searching for a corresponding node based on the key information of the access server and treating the node as a redirected serving node; wherein the obtaining the key information of the access server associated with the address information comprises: obtaining, based on recorded bonding relationship between the address information of the user terminal and the key information of the access server, the key information of the access server associated with the address information carried in the request, wherein the bonding relationship is synchronized by a management system; and requesting the key information of the access server associated with the address information from the management system, and receiving from the management system the key information of the access server associated with the address information, if the obtaining of the key information of the access server associated with the address information carried in the request fails.