Abstract: A network data distribution system which is operated, under circumstances affected by external or internal factors, without discontinuing a data distribution service while being adapted to the present situation is provided. In the server side of the system, data requested from a client are divided into packets, and packet data is formed by adding a time index, and in the client side, an amount of transmission or processing delay is calculated based on the time index included in the received packet data, and delay time information based on the calculated result is communicated. The server side selects the packet data to be next transmitted based on the communicated delay time information, and sends the selected packet data.

Abstract: A transparent coordinate input device can be used integrally with a display unit or overlap it and has a coordinate input panel (i.e., a transparent drawing pad). The input panel has a transparent insulating substrate, a flat transparent resistor film of a rectangular shape which is formed on the substrate, and detection electrodes, electrically connected to four sides of the transparent resistor film, for causing a current to flow along one of current flow-in and flow-out directions with respect to the transparent resistor film. The transparent coordinate input device also has a coordinate correction table for storing correction data representing the relationship between the input coordinate signals representing an input position of the electrical pen and the output coordinate signals representing a position and detected by a detector, and an operation circuit for performing coordinate correction by accessing the coordinate correction table.