Patent ID: 7961645

Claim:
A method for classifying devices in a wireless network, comprising: discovering, by a managing device, one or more devices in the wireless network in accordance with one or more discovery parameters, the one or more discovery parameters comprising a parameter indicative of an IP address range and a parameter indicative of a hostname regular expression; retrieving, by the managing device, a plurality of classification parameters from each of the one or more devices, the plurality of classification parameters comprising a parameter indicative of a device vendor, a parameter indicative of a device model, and a parameter indicative of a device firmware version; comparing, by the managing device, the received plurality of classification parameters with one or more classification rules, the one or more classification rules stored in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file; and storing a device profile for each of the one or more devices with classification parameters satisfying the one or more classification rules for use by the managing device.