Patent ID: 8918528

Claim:
A method for operating a group resource, comprising: receiving an operation request directed to a member resource; wherein, the member resource operation request carries a group resource identifier of a group resource that the member resource belongs to; determining, according to the group resource identifier, at least one of which the group resource identified by the group resource identifier comprises a sub-group resource that is used as a member resource, which a member resource comprised in the group resource identified by the group resource identifier comprises the group resource identified by the group resource identifier, and which the operation request directed to the member resource is an update request; determining that a first operation request identifier for the operation request directed to the member resource needs to be generated; generating the first operation request identifier for the operation request directed to the member resource; and sending a first member resource operation request to a member device that the member resource belongs to, wherein the first member resource operation request comprises the first operation request identifier, so that the member device that the member resource belongs to determines, according to the first operation request identifier, whether operation request identifiers stored by the member device comprise the first operation request identifier, and processes the first member resource operation request according to a determination result.