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Available-for-sale Securities | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2012
Available-for-sale Securities [Abstract] |
Available-for-sale Securities | Note 3. Available-for-sale Securities The following is a summary of available-for-sale securities at September 30, 2012 (in thousands):
|  | September 30, 2012 |
|  | Carrying Value |  |  | Gross Unrealized Gain |  |  | Fair Value |
Money market funds |  | $ | 10,263 |  |  | $ | 0 |  |  | $ | 10,263 |
Total available-for-sale securities |  | $ | 10,263 |  |  | $ | 0 |  |  | $ | 10,263 |
The following is a summary of available-for-sale securities at December 31, 2011 (in thousands):
|  | December 31, 2011 |
|  | Carrying Value |  |  | Gross Unrealized Gain |  |  | Fair Value |
Money market funds |  | $ | 8,683 |  |  | $ | 0 |  |  | $ | 8,683 |
United States government agency securities |  |  | 287 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 287 |
Total available-for-sale securities |  | $ | 8,970 |  |  | $ | 0 |  |  | $ | 8,970 |
Available-for-sale securities at September 30, 2012, and December 31, 2011, consisted of the following by original contractual maturity (in thousands):
|  | September 30, 2012 |  |  | December 31, 2011 |
|  | Carrying Value |  |  | Fair Value |  |  | Carrying Value |  |  | Fair Value |
Due in one year or less |  | $ | 10,263 |  |  | $ | 10,263 |  |  | $ | 8,683 |  |  | $ | 8,683 |
Due greater than three years and less than five years |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 0 |  |  |  | 287 |  |  |  | 287 |
Total available-for-sale securities |  | $ | 10,263 |  |  | $ | 10,263 |  |  | $ | 8,970 |  |  | $ | 8,970 |
The maturities of certain short-term investments were estimated primarily based upon assumed prepayment features and credit enhancement characteristics. The Company did not record any gross realized gains from the sale or maturity of available-for-sale investments during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 and three months ended September 30, 2011. Gross realized gains from the sale or maturity of available-for-sale investments were minimal during the nine months ended September 30, 2011. The Company did not record losses on investments experiencing an other-than-temporary decline in fair value nor did it record any gross realized losses from the sale or maturity of available-for-sale investments during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, and 2011.

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