Patent ID: 8433793

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: requesting from a management system the key information of the access server associated with the address information, and receiving from the management system the key information of the access server associated with the address information; after receiving from the management system the key information of the access server associated with the address information, the method further comprises: storing the key information, configuring a valid period for the address information, and obtaining the key information of the access server associated with the address information from stored records if a request initiated from an address of the same user terminal is received again within the valid period; and wherein the receiving the request initiated by the user terminal comprises: receiving, by a request routing server, the request initiated by the user terminal.