Software Development Costs and Intellectual Property Licenses

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

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,
	2014		2013
Internally developed software costs	$	262	$	189
Payments made to third-party software developers		210		199
Total software development costs	$	472	$	388
Intellectual property licenses	$	23	$	11

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,
		2014		2013		2012
Amortization of capitalized software development
	costs and intellectual property licenses	$	272	$	195	$	205
Write-offs and impairments			---		29		12