Software Development Costs and Intellectual Property Licenses

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Software Development Costs and Intellectual Property Licenses

Software Development Costs and Intellectual Property Licenses

6.       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
	December 31,		December 31,
	2013		2012
Internally developed software costs	$	189	$	159
Payments made to third-party software developers		199		134
Total software development costs	$	388	$	293
Intellectual property licenses	$	11	$	41

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

		For the Years Ended December 31,
		2013		2012		2011
Amortization of capitalized software development
	costs and intellectual property licenses	$	195	$	205	$	258
Write-offs and impairments			29		12		60