Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2012

Goodwill and Purchased Intangible Assets

Goodwill

	Personal Systems			Printing			Services			Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking			Software			HP Financial Services		Corporate Investments			Total
	In millions
Net balance at October 31, 2010	$	2,500		$	2,456		$	16,967		$	6,610		$	7,545		$	144	$	2,261		$	38,483
Goodwill acquired during the period		—			16			66			—			6,786			—		—			6,868
Goodwill adjustments/reclassifications		(2	)		(1	)		247			1,460			(268	)		—		(1,423	)		13
Impairment loss		—			—			—			—			—			—		(813	)		(813	)
Net balance at October 31, 2011	$	2,498		$	2,471		$	17,280		$	8,070		$	14,063		$	144	$	25		$	44,551
Goodwill acquired during the period		—			16			—			—			—			—		—			16
Goodwill adjustments/reclassifications		—			—			(40	)		(308	)		580			—		(25	)		207
Impairment loss		—			—			(7,961	)		—			(5,744	)		—		—			(13,705	)
Net balance at October 31, 2012	$	2,498		$	2,487		$	9,279		$	7,762		$	8,899		$	144	$	—		$	31,069

Purchased Intangible Assets

	October 31, 2012										October 31, 2011
	Gross		Accumulated Amortization			Accumulated Impairment Loss			Net		Gross		Accumulated Amortization			Accumulated Impairment Loss			Net
	In millions
Customer contracts, customer lists and distribution agreements	$	5,807	$	(2,625	)	$	(856	)	$	2,326	$	6,409	$	(2,390	)		(49	)	$	3,970
Developed and core technology and patents		6,580		(2,501	)		(2,138	)		1,941		7,226		(1,944	)		—			5,282
"Compaq" trade name		1,422		(18	)		(1,227	)		177		1,422		—			—			1,422
Other product trademarks		310		(137	)		(109	)		64		367		(129	)		(23	)		215
In-process research and development ("IPR&D")		7		—			—			7		9		—			—			9
Total purchased intangible assets	$	14,126	$	(5,281	)	$	(4,330	)	$	4,515	$	15,433	$	(4,463	)		(72	)	$	10,898

Finite-lived purchased intangible assets

Estimated future amortization expense related to finite-lived purchased intangible assets at October 31, 2012 is as follows:

Fiscal year:	In millions
2013	$	1,363
2014		1,026
2015		837
2016		680
2017		254
Thereafter		348
Total	$	4,508