Prior art — US Patent 11936693

To identify the most relevant prior art for US patent 11936693, I need to access its citations from the USPTO database. Since I cannot directly interact with a live USPTO database search tool, I will proceed based on the common practice of patents citing prior art within their own documentation.

The provided patent text for US11936693 lists "Prior art keywords" and "Prior art date" but does not explicitly detail a list of "References Cited" in a separate section that would typically be found in a patent document. However, it does refer to related applications:

U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 17/659,165 filed on Apr. 13, 2022.
U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 17/659,163 filed on Apr. 13, 2022.
U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 17/659,164, filed Apr. 13, 2022.
U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 17/818,898 filed Aug. 10, 2022.
U.S. Pat. No. 11,374,982 (mentioned in the detailed description for static analysis process).

Additionally, the Google Patents page for US11936693 (which is authoritative as per the operating rules) lists other priority applications:

US17/659,163 (Priority claimed from 2022-04-13)
US17/659,165 (Priority claimed from 2022-04-13)
US17/659,164 (Priority claimed from 2022-04-13)
US17/818,898 (Priority claimed from 2022-08-10)

For a thorough prior art analysis, these related applications, particularly US Pat. No. 11,374,982, would be crucial to examine. Without explicit claim-by-claim analysis of these related patents and applications, and without their full text, I can only provide a general assessment of potential anticipation.

Given the information at hand, I will focus on US Pat. No. 11,374,982, as it is directly referenced within the detailed description for a core component of the disclosed method in US11936693, namely "generating network paths, also known as determining reachability to a resource."

Most Relevant Prior Art for US Patent 11936693 (Based on provided text and citation):

Reference 1: U.S. Pat. No. 11,374,982

Full Citation: U.S. Pat. No. 11,374,982 (The full citation details such as inventor, assignee, and exact publication date are not provided in the current text, but the patent number is.)
Publication/Filing Date: Not explicitly stated in the provided text for US11936693, only that its content is incorporated by reference.
Brief Description: This patent describes an "example of a static analysis process for generating network paths, also known as determining reachability to a resource." This process is integral to identifying initial network paths that US11936693 then actively inspects.
Which claim(s) it potentially anticipates under 35 U.S.C. § 102:
U.S. Pat. No. 11,374,982, by describing a static analysis process for "generating network paths" and "determining reachability to a resource," directly relates to the initial steps of identifying potential network paths to a reachable resource. This could potentially anticipate the "selecting a reachable resource having a network path to access the reachable resource" element found in independent claims of US11936693 (Method Claim 1, Computer-Readable Medium Claim 1, and System Claim 1). If the prior art describes the entirety of this selection step, including the resource being a cloud object deployed in a cloud computing environment with access to an external network, it would be highly relevant under 35 U.S.C. § 102. The extent of anticipation would depend on the specific details of how US 11,374,982 defines and implements "generating network paths" and "determining reachability."

To provide a more comprehensive prior art analysis, the full text and claims of US 11,374,982, as well as the other mentioned priority applications (US 17/659,165, US 17/659,163, US 17/659,164, and US 17/818,898), would need to be reviewed to determine specific elements and their potential overlap with the claims of US11936693.