# US 11,442,788 B2 · Locating system resources > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,442,788 B2 - Document ID: US11442788B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/797,509 - Filed: 2020-02-21 - Published: 2020-09-03 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2019-02-28 - Assignees: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP - Applicants: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP - Inventors: Mayuri Ravindra Joshi; Sagar Ratnakara Nikam - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11442788B2 ## CPC - G06F 9/5061: {Partitioning or combining of resources} - G06F 9/5072: {Grid computing} - G06F 9/3891: {organised in groups of units sharing resources, e.g. clusters} - G06F 9/5027: {the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals} - G06F 2209/502: Proximity - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract Example implementations relate to locating cloud system resources. A system can comprise a processor and a non-transitory memory resource storing machine readable instructions to receive a global positioning system (GPS) coordinate for hardware resources positioned at a plurality of geographic locations, tag resources stored at each of the plurality of geographic locations with a corresponding GPS coordinate, and determine a corresponding geographic location of a portion of the tagged resources based on extracted GPS coordinates for the portion of the tagged resources. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system, comprising: a processor; and a non-transitory memory resource storing machine-readable instructions to cause the processor to: receive global positioning system (GPS) coordinates for a plurality of resources located at a plurality of geographic locations; tag resources located at each of the plurality of geographic locations with corresponding GPS coordinates; identify resources corresponding to an account and extract GPS coordinates tagged to the identified resources corresponding to the account to generate a geographic map of the identified resources, wherein the plurality of resources located at the plurality of geographic locations include a virtual resource, and extract a GPS coordinate for the virtual resource includes using a virtual GPS coordinate stored in a golden image of a hypervisor associated with the virtual resource. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions to tag the resources includes instructions to assign labels to the resources to identify geographic locations of the resources. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein portions of the tagged resources reside in different geographic locations. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, comprising instructions to tag resources with migration information. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein a tag of the portion of the tagged resources is updated in response to the portion of the resources migrating across the plurality of geographic locations. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the resources include policies that define compliance rules for the corresponding geographic location of the resources. ### Claim 7 A method comprising: receiving global positioning system (GPS) coordinates for a plurality of resources located at a plurality of geographic locations; tagging resources located at each of the plurality of geographic locations with corresponding GPS coordinates; identifying resources corresponding to an account; and extracting GPS coordinates tagged to the identified resources corresponding to the account to generate a geographic map of the identified resources, wherein the plurality of resources located at the plurality of geographic locations include a virtual resource, and extracting a GPS coordinate for the virtual resource includes using a virtual GPS coordinate stored in a golden image of a hypervisor associated with the virtual resource. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, comprising updating a tag for a portion of the resources located at the plurality of geographic locations in response to the portion of the resources migrating from a first geographic location to a second geographic location of the plurality of geographic locations. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the first geographic location is a first geographical area of a first country and the second geographical location is a second geographical area of a second country. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, comprising tagging migration information to the resources. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The method of claim 10, wherein the migration information includes previous geographic locations where the resources were stored. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The method of claim 10, wherein the migration information includes a timestamp that indicates a time when the resources were stored at previous geographic locations. ### Claim 13 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of geographic locations include a policy corresponding to the geographic location. ### Claim 14 A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to cause the processing resource to: receive global positioning system (GPS) coordinates fora plurality of resources located at the plurality of geographic locations; tag resources located at each of the plurality of geographic locations with corresponding GPS coordinates; identify resources corresponding to an account; and extract GPS coordinates tagged to the identified resources corresponding to the account to generate a geographic map of the identified resources, wherein the plurality of resources located at the plurality of geographic locations include a virtual resource, and extracting a GPS coordinate for the virtual resource includes using a virtual GPS coordinate stored in a golden image of a hypervisor associated with the virtual resource. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The medium of claim 14, wherein the resources are tracked based on rules associated with each of the plurality of geographic locations. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The medium of claim 15, wherein the plurality of geographic locations includes a first geographic location conforming to a compliance policy corresponding to the first geographic location. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The medium of claim 15, wherein an alert is generated in response to the tagged resources violating a compliance policy. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The medium of claim 17, wherein the alert is sent to a user associated with a first portion of the resources when the first portion of the resources are violating a compliance policy associated with an account associated with the first portion of the resources. ### Claim 19 (depends on 16) The medium of claim 16, wherein a migration history of the first portion of the resources indicates a first portion of resources were moved to a second geographic location belonging to the plurality of geographic locations and a time when the first portion of resources were moved to the second geographic location. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The medium of claim 15, wherein the tagged resources include information including identification of the resource, date, and time the resource was identified in a particular geographic location.