Abstract: A bus-method communication network has a number of stations with assigned station numbers. An exclusive right or priority of transmission is transferred from a first station to a second station by transmission of an abort signal including synchronization information and a first address assigned to the first station. In each station, a waiting time is calculated from a first station number in the detected abort signal and the station number assigned to the receiving station. When the associated waiting time elapses, another station seizes priority as a second station and transmits a paging signal having a destination address following communication data. Each station is prevented from seizing transmission priority in response to reception of the paging signal, and the station having the destination address decodes the communication data. The second station thereafter transmits the abort signal.