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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2022
Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, CN;
Ke Zeng, Hangzhou, CN;
Yong Chen, Hangzhou, CN;
Hongquan Zhang, Hangzhou, CN;
Lingtao Kong, Hangzhou, CN;
Han Xiao, Hangzhou, CN;
Xiaokang Qin, Hangzhou, CN;
Bin Yang, Hangzhou, CN;
Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, CN;
Abstract
Embodiments of this specification provide a communication method and apparatus based on a relay cluster. The relay cluster includes a load balancing server and at least two relay servers. The communication method includes: receiving a relay request packet sent by a client, where the relay request packet includes a transaction identifier, and the transaction identifier includes a mode field and a routing information field; acquiring routing information of a first relay server of the at least two relay servers based on a value of the mode field and a value of the routing information field in the relay request packet; and sending a relay allocation packet carrying the routing information of the first relay server to the client, so that the client establishes a relay channel based on the routing information of the first relay server.