Patent ID: 9256742
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving one or more known values via a white list portal; populating a white list repository with the one or more known values; receiving a communication from a cloud computing node associated with a remote trust agent; selecting a protocol specific plug-in from a plurality of protocol specific plug-ins based on a hypervisor protocol corresponding to the communication; retrieving the one or more known values from the white list repository; using the selected protocol specific plug-in to conduct a trust analysis of one or more digitally signed geo-location values in the communication, wherein the trust analysis is conducted on a per-hypervisor protocol basis and the trust analysis includes comparing the one or more digitally signed geo-location values to the one or more known values; and processing a cloud attestation request based on the trust analysis, wherein processing the cloud attestation request includes generating a location verification output for the cloud computing node.