NetMind Technologies was an

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

software company founded in February 1996 by Matt Freivald, Mark Richards and Alan Noble. The company pioneered Internet

change detection and notification Change detection and notification (CDN) is the automatic detection of changes made to World Wide Web pages and notification to interested users by email or other means. Whereas search engines are designed to find web pages, CDN systems are designe ...

(CDN) at a time when most companies were still focused on Internet search. For example, NetMind was the first company to develop so-called persistent search for automatically notifying users of changed search results, a capability developed only much later in products such as

Google Alerts Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service, offered by Google. The service sends emails to the user when it finds new results—such as web pages, newspaper articles, blogs, or scientific research—that match the user' ...

. NetMind started at th
Tech Farm Ventures
incubator in Sunnyvale and then rapidly expanded into a headquarters in Campbell and an engineering office in Santa Cruz, California, growing to 60 employees. NetMind's popular "Mind-it" change detection and notification service amassed over 6 million users in less than 4 years. The product was also used by companies like Boeing, eBay, etc. In May 1999, NetMind was named one of Upside Magazine's Hot 100 industry startups. In February 2000, NetMind was acquired by Puma Technologies later renamed

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and in turn acquired by

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in 2005. NetMind was granted five US patents in the area of change detection. Change detection and notification (CDN) is assigned to TCP/IP port 2412 wit
IANA port numbers

Patents

6,219,818 Checksum-comparing change-detection tool indicating degree and location of change of internet documents 6,012,087 Unique-change detection of dynamic web pages using history tables of signatures 5,983,268 Spreadsheet user-interface for an internet-document change-detection tool 5,978,842 Distributed-client change-detection tool with change-detection augmented by multiple clients 5,898,836 Change-detection tool indicating degree and location of change of internet documents by comparison of CRC signatures {{Cite web , url=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,898,836.PN.&OS=PN/6,219,818&RS=PN/5,898,836 , title = United States Patent: 5898836 - Change-detection tool indicating degree and location of change of internet documents by comparison of cyclic-redundancy-check(CRC) signatures

External links

ChangeDetect

References

Defunct online companies Companies established in 1996 Change detection and notification