Software Development Costs and Intellectual Property Licenses

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

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
	March 31,		December 31,
	2015		2014
Internally developed software costs	$	247	$	262
Payments made to third-party software developers		157		210
Total software development costs	$	404	$	472
Intellectual property licenses	$	23	$	23

Amortizationof capitalized software development costs and intellectual property licenses was the following (amounts in millions):

		For the Three Months Ended March 31,
		2015		2014
Amortization of capitalized software development
	costs and intellectual property licenses	$	147	$	58