Display control of a portion of a document by primary and secondary display devices

1. A method implemented by a computing device for controlling a view of a document, the method comprising:

displaying, by the computing device, the document in a user interface on a primary display device;

receiving, by the computing device, a user input via the user interface to cause display of a portion of the document;

determining, by the computing device, a secondary display device is available to display the portion of the document responsive to the receiving of the user input, the secondary display device having a different type of configuration than the primary display device;

displaying, by the computing device, a notification indicating availability of the secondary display device to display the portion of the document;

receiving, by the computing device, a selection of the secondary display device;

causing, by the computing device, the selected secondary display device to display the portion of the document responsive to the receiving of the selection by the computing device; and

responsive to receipt by the computing device of a navigation input via the user interface to navigate the display of the document on the primary display device:

navigating the display of the document on the primary display device; and

continuing the display of the portion of the document on the selected secondary display device during the navigating.

2. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the selected secondary display device is connected to the computing device via a wireless network.

3. The method as described in claim 1 , further comprising responsive to the receiving of the user input to cause display of the portion of the document by the selected secondary display device, sending, by the computing device, the portion of the document to the selected secondary display device.

4. The method as described in claim 1 , further comprising responsive to the receiving of the user input to cause display of the portion of the document by the selected secondary display device, sending, by the computing device, a network location of the portion of the document to the selected secondary display device.

5. The method as described in claim 4 , wherein the network location is a uniform resource locator (URL).

6. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the document is accessible via a remote storage system via a network by both the computing device and the selected secondary display device.

7. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the user input includes a gesture that specifies a location of the portion of the document within the document.

8. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the computing device communicates with the selected secondary display device via a direct connection.

9. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the navigation of the document on the primary display device causes the displaying of the portion on the primary display device to cease and the display of the portion of the document on the selected secondary display device to continue.

10. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the document is a portable document format (PDF) document.

11. The method as described in claim 1 , wherein the portion of the document is a chart, graph, table, 2D or 3D model, animation, or video embedded within the document.

12. At least one computer-readable storage media device comprising instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by a processing system, causes the processing system to perform operations comprising:

displaying a document in a user interface on a primary display device;

receiving a user input via the user interface to cause display of a portion of the document by a secondary display device;

detecting, by the computing device, the secondary display device as available to display the portion of the document responsive to the receiving of the user input, the secondary display device having a different type of configuration than the primary display device;

displaying, by the computing device, a notification indicating availability of the secondary display device to display the portion of the document;

receiving, by the computing device, a selection of the secondary display device;

responsive to the receiving of the user input, causing the secondary display device to display the portion of the document;

responsive to receipt of a navigation input via the user interface to navigate the display of the document on the primary display device, navigating the display of the document on the primary display device; and

continuing the display of the portion of the document on the secondary display device.

13. The at least one computer-readable storage media device as described in claim 12 , wherein the user interface comprises an application window for an application that produces the user interface and the portion of the document is displayed outside of the application window on the selected secondary display device.

14. The at least one computer-readable storage media device as described in claim 13 , wherein the primary display device and the selected secondary display device comprise two separate devices.

15. A system of controlling a view of a document, the system comprising:

a primary display device; and

a computing device configured for displaying a document on the primary display device, the computing device including:

means for displaying the document within a user interface on the primary display device;

means for detecting a secondary display device as available to display the portion of the document responsive to the receiving of a user input, the secondary display device having a different type of configuration than the primary display device;

means for displaying a notification in the user interface on the primary display device indicating availability of the secondary display device to display the portion of the document;

means for causing a display of a portion of the document on the secondary display device responsive to a selection of the notification; and

responsive to receipt of a navigation input via the user interface, means for causing the primary display device to navigate the display of the document on the primary display device, while causing the secondary display device to continue to display the portion of the document independent from that navigation.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the secondary display device is associated with a secondary computing device connected to the computing device via a network or direct connection.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the computing device and the secondary computing device have respective instances of a software application.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein login information for a user is used to sign into the respective instances of the software application.

19. The system of claim 16 , wherein the means for causing sends the portion of the document to the secondary computing device.

20. The system of claim 16 , wherein the means for causing sends a network location of the portion of the document to the secondary computing device.