INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

An information processing apparatus includes: an information processing unit that performs plural types of information processing for exchanging information with a device; a wireless communication unit that is capable of transmitting and receiving a radio-wave or spatial-light wireless signal to and from the device; and a communication control unit that controls the wireless communication unit so as to transmit, as a wireless signal, advertisement packets correlated with one or more types of information processing and including communication information that is necessary to exchange information or information to be provided, the communication control unit performing control so as to continue time-division transmission of the advertisement packets while adding or deleting a type of the advertisement packets to be transmitted in accordance with a state of execution of the processing by the information processing unit.