Patent ID: 9374228
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method to verify a geographic location of a virtual disk image executing at a data center server within a data center, the method comprising: receiving the virtual disk image from a data center tenant for execution at the data center; sending a disk image hash value of the virtual disk image signed by an endorsement key unique to a cryptoprocessor within the data center server to the data center tenant, a public half of the endorsement key, and a digital certificate certifying the public half of the endorsement key to the data center tenant, private half of the endorsement key is stored in the cryptoprocessor and is unique to the cryptoprocessor; and sending the geographic location of the cryptoprocessor matching the public half of the endorsement key to the data center tenant by a location provider within the data center.