Software Development Costs and Intellectual Property Licenses

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2014

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
	June 30,		December 31,
	2014		2013
Internally developed software costs	$	211	$	189
Payments made to third-party software developers		248		199
Total software development costs	$	459	$	388
Intellectual property licenses	$	3	$	11

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 June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
		2014		2013		2014		2013
Amortization of capitalized software development
	costs and intellectual property licenses	$	50	$	46	$	108	$	108
Write-offs and impairments			---		---		---		26