System, method, and computer program for automatically generating communication device metadata definitions

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a system, device information from a hardware device connected to a communication network and adapted for transmitting communications in the communication network;

automatically generating, by the system, a device metadata definition for the hardware device utilizing the device information and an adaptive algorithm, the device metadata definition representing a model of the hardware device and storing at least attributes of the hardware device including:

a model number of the hardware device,

a structure of the hardware device, and

capabilities of the hardware device;

receiving, by the system from a user, a change manually made to the device metadata definition that includes at least one of a correction and a completion manually made to the device metadata definition to form a final device metadata definition for the hardware device;

storing, by the system, the final device metadata definition for the hardware device;

over time, recognizing, by the adaptive algorithm of the system, a common pattern of the change being made manually to additional device metadata definitions generated by the system for additional instances of the hardware device connected to the communication network;

training the adaptive algorithm in accordance with the recognized common pattern to improve subsequent accuracy of modeling of further instances of the hardware device connected to the communication network by the system; and

modeling, by the system, each of the further instances of the hardware device using the trained adaptive algorithm by:

receiving, by the system, additional device information from the further instance of the hardware device, and

automatically generating, by the system, a new final device metadata definition for the further instance of the hardware device utilizing the additional device information and the trained adaptive algorithm, such that the new final device metadata definition automatically includes the change.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining that the device information is incomplete for generating the final device metadata definition for the hardware device.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising identifying missing device information required to generate the final device metadata definition.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising proposing information to use for the missing device information required to generate the final device metadata definition.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the change is received from the user to complete the device metadata definition.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein automatically generating the device metadata definition for the hardware device utilizing the device information occurs without the user initially providing information for the device metadata definition.

7. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:

computer code for receiving, by a system, device information from a hardware device connected to a communication network and adapted for transmitting communications in the communication network;

computer code for automatically generating, by the system, a device metadata definition for the hardware device utilizing the device information and an adaptive algorithm, the device metadata definition representing a model of the hardware device and storing at least attributes of the hardware device including:

a model number of the hardware device,

a structure of the hardware device, and

capabilities of the hardware device;

computer code for receiving, by the system from a user, a change manually made to the device metadata definition that includes at least one of a correction and a completion manually made to the device metadata definition to form a final device metadata definition for the hardware device;

computer code for storing, by the system, the final device metadata definition for the hardware device;

computer code for, over time, recognizing, by the adaptive algorithm of the system, a common pattern of the change being made manually to additional device metadata definitions generated by the system for additional instances of the hardware device connected to the communication network;

computer code for training the adaptive algorithm in accordance with the recognized common pattern to improve subsequent accuracy of modeling of further instances of the hardware device connected to the communication network by the system; and

computer code for modeling, by the system, each of the further instances of the hardware device using the trained adaptive algorithm by:

receiving, by the system, additional device information from the further instance of the hardware device, and

automatically generating, by the system, a new final device metadata definition for the further instance of the hardware device utilizing the additional device information and the trained adaptive algorithm, such that the new final device metadata definition automatically includes the change.

8. A system comprising:

a memory system; and

one or more processing cores coupled to the memory system and that are each configured to:

receive device information from a hardware device connected to a communication network and adapted for transmitting communications in the communication network;

automatically generate a device metadata definition for the hardware device utilizing the device information and an adaptive algorithm, the device metadata definition representing a model of the hardware device and storing at least attributes of the hardware device including:

a model number of the hardware device,

a structure of the hardware device, and

capabilities of the hardware device;

receive, from a user, a change manually made to the device metadata definition that includes at least one of a correction and a completion manually made to the device metadata definition to form a final device metadata definition for the hardware device;

store the final device metadata definition for the hardware device;

over time, recognize, by the adaptive algorithm, a common pattern of the change being made manually to additional device metadata definitions generated for additional instances of the hardware device connected to the communication network;

train the adaptive algorithm in accordance with the recognized common pattern to improve subsequent accuracy of modeling of further instances of the hardware device connected to the communication network; and

model each of the further instances of the hardware device using the trained adaptive algorithm by:

receiving additional device information from the further instance of the hardware device, and

automatically generating a new final device metadata definition for the further instance of the hardware device utilizing the additional device information and the trained adaptive algorithm, such that the new final device metadata definition automatically includes the change.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

discovering the hardware device in the communication network;

wherein automatically generating the device metadata definition occurs in response to discovering the hardware device in the communication network.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the change manually made to the device metadata definition by the user includes the completion manually made to the device metadata definition, the completion being a power consumption of the hardware device supplied by the user which cannot be learned from the received device information.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the learning algorithm is customized differently for different customers to follow patterns specific to requirements of the different customers, such that different models are provided to different customers based on the requirements of the different customers.