12-30-2013, 01:18 AM
I don't think being able to patent it is terribly important, and alternatives (launchers) already exist although the exact technical details differ quite a bit.
At first sight, this is similar to other home screen carrier alterations like Motoblur or HTC's Sense. However: NQ Live homescreen is user configurable NQ Live homescreen is less heavy handed in terms of changing Android code (it's more like wallpaper rather than a launcher). Other launchers often run into trouble when new versions of Android are pushed to the phone.
The way I see it is as a device to improve the user experience and increase the switching cost for (at least part) of your ecosystem, others will do similar things in a different way and perhaps one way is somewhat better than the other but I'm not sure patents would be all that important.