Game console application with action cards

A computer system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memories storing computer-readable instructions that, upon execution by the one or more processors, configure the computer system to:
• provide data templates that define arrangements of user interface (UI) elements to be shown in an interactive menu and data to be cached for respective applications, each data template identifying a type of content to be cached for a respective application and associating the type to one or more presentation states in the interactive menu;
• determine, by a menu application of the computer system, a first data template for a first target application of the computer system;
• store, by the menu application and based on the first data template, data of the first target application in a cache of the menu application, the data comprising first content or a first uniform resource identifier (URI) of the first content, the data further comprising second content or a second URI of the second content, the first content being of a first type identified in the first data template and associated in the first data template with a first presentation state and a second presentation state, the second content being of a second type identified in the first data template and associated in the first data template with the second presentation state;
• receive, from an input device, a user input requesting the interactive menu;
• present, by the menu application, the interactive menu on a display, the interactive menu comprising windows that are presented in the first presentation state and that correspond to the respective applications, the windows comprising a first window that corresponds to the first target application and that is populated with the first content based on the data from the cache of the menu application and based on the first data template;
• receive, from the input device, a user interaction with the first window requesting the second presentation state;
• generate, by the menu application, a copy of the data of the first target application from the cache based on the user interaction with the first window;
• send, by the menu application to a window application of the computer system, the copy of the data of the first target application, the window application being different from the menu application and the first target application;
• and
• present, by the window application and on the display, a second window that corresponds to the first target application, the second window presented in the second presentation state and populated by the window application with the first content and the second content based on the copy of the data and based on the first data template.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-readable instructions that, upon execution on a computer system, cause the computer system to perform operations comprising:

• providing data templates that define arrangements of user interface (UI) elements to be shown in an interactive menu and data to be cached for respective applications, each data template identifying a type of content to be cached for a respective application and associating the type to one or more presentations states in the interactive menu;
• determining, by a menu application of the computer system, a first data template for a first target application of the computer system;
• storing, by the menu application and based on the first data template, data of the first target application in a cache of the menu application, the data comprising first content or a first uniform resource identifier (URI) of the first content, the data further comprising second content or a second URI of the second content, the first content being of a first type identified in the first data template and associated in the first data template with a first presentation state and a second presentation state, the second content being of a second type identified in the first data template and associated in the first data template with the second presentation state, the cache storing different data for different target applications of the computer system based on different templates defined for the different target applications;
• receiving, from an input device, a user input requesting an interactive menu;
• presenting, by the menu application, the interactive menu on a display, the interactive menu comprising windows that are presented in the first presentation state and that correspond to the respective applications, the windows comprising a first window that corresponds to the first target application and that is populated with the first content based on the data from the cache of the menu application and based on the first data template;
• receiving, from the input device, a user interaction with the first window requesting the second presentation state;
• generating, by the menu application, a copy of the data of the first target application from the cache based on the user interaction with the first window;
• sending, by the menu application to a window application of the computer system, the copy of the data of the first target application, the window application being different from the menu application and the first target application;
• and
• presenting, by the window application and on the display, a second window that corresponds to the first target application, the second window presented in the second presentation state and populated by the window application with the first content and the second content based on the copy of the data and based on the first data template.