Abstract: An agent interface for interactively providing a script to an agent during a calling campaign includes an outline panel means for displaying a call flow outline, the call flow outline having a series of hierarchical topics relating to the campaign. The call flow outline provides an indication of the current position among the hierarchical topics in the script, and provides a means for navigating through the topics. An action panel is associated with each topic and displays a set of objects relating to the topic. Selection of a new topic from the call flow outline, either manually or automatically in response to fulfillment of exit conditions associated with a previous topic, causes the call flow outline to indicate the new topic as the current topic and causes the action panel means to display a second set of objects associated with the new topic.

Abstract: An automatic telephone scheduling system (20) includes a data server (22), a dial server (24), and a plurality of agent workstations (28) which communicate with each other through messages transmitted over a local area network (30). The data server (22) has stored in its memory a plurality of account information records to be utilized for one or more calling campaigns. The dial server (24) includes an independent intelligent processor (80) which functions as a master to the data server (22) but as a slave to the agent workstations (28). The dial server (24) further includes a plurality of audio MUXes (88) and dialers (90) for automatically dialing and connecting calls to the agent workstations (28). In various embodiments, a plurality of data servers and/or a plurality of dial servers are employed.