The following describes an exemplary embodiment of the present invention in detail with reference to the drawings. Note that in the following description, the present invention is exemplarily applied to an arbitrary digital camera capable of acquiring service information that can be provided by other apparatuses, and the digital camera is used as an example of a communication apparatus. Note that the present invention is not limited to being applied to a digital camera, and is applicable to any apparatus capable of acquiring service information that can be provided by other apparatuses. Examples of such an apparatus include a mobile telephone device, a game console, a tablet terminal, a personal computer, a timepiece-type or an eyeglass-type information terminal, a vehicle-mounted device, and a medical device.

Furthermore, in the following description, a wireless LAN system that complies with the IEEE 802.11 series is used. Note that a communication mode is not necessarily limited to a wireless LAN that complies with the IEEE 802.11, and it is possible to use other communication modes utilizing, for example, Bluetooth?, Zigbee?, or a variation thereof.

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