Patent ID: 8825638

Claim:
A method of detecting behavior-based relationships for multiple domain-specific applications, the method comprising: by a computer system comprising computer hardware: identifying a first user action and a second user action of a plurality of users with respect to a network application; measuring a characteristic associated with the first and second user actions, said measuring comprising obtaining a measurement value other than a score indicative of a strength of a relationship between the first and second user actions; pairing together activity data that relates the first and second user actions together in relationship data in physical computer storage; storing the measurement value in association with the paired activity data in the relationship data in the physical computer storage; analyzing the measurement value with a first application to calculate a first strength of the relationship between the first and second user actions using a first criterion of the first application, the first criterion applied to the measurement value; and analyzing the measurement value with a second application to calculate a second strength of the relationship between the first and second user actions using a second criterion of the second application, the second criterion applied to the measurement value differently from the first criterion such that the second calculated strength differs from the first calculated strength, wherein the first and second application analyze the same measurement value differently; wherein said measuring and pairing enables the first and second applications to independently analyze the relationship data differently according to the first and second criteria without needing to maintain separate sets of the relationship data.