The procedure of BLE communication executed between the information processing apparatus 101 and the communication apparatus 151 will be described with reference to
Note that here, as described above, the communication apparatus 151 is assumed to be an advertiser that transmits advertisement information at a predetermined interval, and the information processing apparatus 101 is assumed to be a scanner that waits for advertisement information transmitted from an advertiser on the periphery. First, the short-range wireless communication unit 157 in the communication apparatus 151 transmits advertisement information (steps S1201 to S1203). The information processing apparatus 101 can recognize the existence of the communication apparatus 151 when the short-range wireless communication unit 110 receives the advertisement information transmitted from the short-range wireless communication unit 157.