Software Development and Intellectual Property Licenses

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2013

Software Development Costs and Intellectual Property Licenses

Software Development Costs and Intellectual Property Licenses

3.       Software development and intellectual property licenses

The following table summarizes the components of our capitalized software development costs and intellectual property licenses(amounts in millions):

	At		At
	September 30,		December 31,
	2013		2012
Internally developed software costs	$	200	$	159
Payments made to third-party software developers		201		134
Total software development costs	$	401	$	293
Intellectual property licenses	$	12	$	41

Amortization, write-offs and impairments of capitalized software development costs and intellectual property licenses are comprised of the following (amounts in millions):

		Three months ended September 30,				Nine months ended September 30,
		2013		2012		2013		2012
Amortization of capitalized software development
	costs and intellectual property licenses	$	15	$	22	$	123	$	121
Write-offs and impairments			---		---		26		8