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Christian Heydemann

Michael J McCormack

Ron Mondri

Ted Cyrek

Richard Lee Dickinson

Anastasia Paushkina

Nicholas James Thomson

Vineet Gupta

Praveen Upadhyay

Ramanathan Pallassana

Wayne C Higgins

Indrojit Deb

Bharath Swaminathan

Patrick O'Brien

Concepts and technologies are described herein for collecting and displaying information. A client device executes one or more application programs for providing operations with respect to entity-related data that relates to one or more entities. The application programs analyze the entity-related data to identify one or more entities associated with the entity-related data and transmit entity information relating to the entities to a server or database. Information relating to the entity is retrieved from the server or database and is presented to a user of the client device.

Collecting and presenting information

A business data system generates a user interface display showing a business data record. The business data system receives a touch gesture user input to manipulate the business data record to perform an operation, a task or a workflow within the business data system. The business data system performs the operation, task or workflow based on the touch gesture user input.

Use of touch and gestures related to tasks and business workflow

A layout transformation system accesses application metadata that defines a plurality of different structures for displaying components of the application, based upon the particular modality of the display device. The layout transformation system then transforms a user interface display based on the application metadata and based upon the particular modality, and provides the user interface display to the display device for rendering and user interaction.

Multimodal layout and rendering

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