A system and method are presented that provide authentication tokens to a local device from a remote server. The authentication token incorporates standard token content, and also includes additional token components that are needed by the local device. The additional token components incorporate user preferences information, initialization data, or other useable information needed by the local device. In contrast to standard processes, which must return a security token to the local device before any useful data can be exchanged, the disclosed embodiment inserts useable data into the returned token and eliminates the time required to obtain this data through a separate data request.