Patent ID: 8356094

Claim:
A method for locating operation nodes in a communication system, comprising: receiving, by a client, at least one same message comprising information regarding a same identifier and a same relative path for locating a target operation node in a device management tree based on OMA DM standard, wherein the same identifier is used to identify a standard management object of the device management tree of the client and for standard management objects of different device management trees of different clients; wherein the same relative path is a path between the target operation node and a root node of the standard management object of the device management tree, wherein the same relative path is shared by the different device management trees of the different clients; searching, by the client, the device management tree of the client for the standard management object corresponding to the same identifier to obtain a corresponding adjusted path between a root node of the device management tree and the root node of the standard management object of the device management tree, wherein each of the different device management trees of the different clients obtains a corresponding different adjusted path; and concatenating each of the corresponding adjusted paths with the same relative path to obtain a concatenated path, and locating the target operation node according to the concatenated path; wherein each of the different clients uses the received at least one same message to locate a corresponding target operation node in the different device management trees.